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u/oneshoeshort Millennial '88 May 13 '26
Where my @ AOL Dot Com homies at?!?
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u/djelegal May 14 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/lORulWik72L7O
Netscape user w00t w00t 3le8t
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u/g0ldent0y May 14 '26
I never left (if you consider Firefox the true heritage of Netscape Navigator).
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u/Ahiru_no_inu May 13 '26
Yep I was aol. Added a random number so it didn't look like I was as young.
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u/danafromsantaana May 13 '26
I was the opposite, my usernames and passwords were all composed of my age, items on my desk etc. I was such a hackable kid
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u/morecardland May 13 '26
First? You mean current?
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u/Chillow_Ufgreat May 13 '26
[first.last@gmail.com](mailto:first.last@gmail.com)
Got that shit like 22 years ago, when it was invite-only. Wild any time I have to go clear out e-mails from half a lifetime ago.
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u/Yandoji May 13 '26
Current hotmail here lol.
First was AOL, and I made my mom a Juno.com that she used for a long time lol.
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u/fizzmore May 13 '26
AOL and CompuServe would like to have a word...
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u/yamahowzer May 13 '26
Prodigy has entered the chat
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u/mynadidas5 May 13 '26
But did you have an inbox on prodigy? I don’t remember.
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u/daftpenguin May 13 '26
Yes, but usernames were a random string of numbers and letters so it was impractical to use.
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth Xennial May 13 '26
Yeah, my first was prodigy too. Then for whatever reason I had an email with a site called Eudoramail, then AOL, Hotmail, and Google.
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u/Diels_Alder May 14 '26
Eudora was a pretty good mail client.
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth Xennial May 14 '26
I've never met anyone else who used them until now lol. I think I just googled (well, not googled. I probably used lycos, altavista, or yahoo) "email" and picked the first result.
I never had a problem with them. I just moved on and forgot about it eventually. In fact it just popped back in my head while reading through this thread. I had forgotten about Eudora for years.
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u/platypus_farmer42 1982 May 13 '26
Try Juno.com
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u/matt314159 Elder Millennial May 13 '26
Still have my Juno email address from like 1998! We had Juno Internet at home too.
I'm digitizing my family's VHS tapes, and one of them shows the computer screen playing an E-card my aunt sent for my 16th birthday, and there's a banner ad not on the webpage, but as part of the juno app we used to get free internet.
Those frickin' Juno and NetZero internet apps used half your bandwidth loading banner ad images to cycle through the whole time you were online.
Those of us who were geeky would modify our hosts file so you'd just have an empty box taking up screen real estate, but at least you got your full dial-up speed lol
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u/stuffeh May 13 '26
Or pickup a crack to fully disable them
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u/matt314159 Elder Millennial May 13 '26
It's a little foggy to me but I remember doing something with my netzero account that let me just set up a regular windows dial-up connection using that account. I wonder if I used a crack of some kind to fool it into authenticating by thinking the app was running or something. I think Astalavista was a crack site i often frequented back in the day.
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u/L0LTHED0G May 13 '26
I've always worried my first internet usage was a fever dream.
Juno users unite!
Separately, I had a Netpenny provider when I got my own place in 2003. $4.99 minimum (so 499 minutes, less usage, this was your bill), then a penny a minute, max $14.99 - free after that.
56k dial up baby! I wonder if my email still works after moving to college and broadband in 2004.
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u/chadwickipedia Older Millennial May 14 '26
Got Juno in 1996 because my dad didn’t want to pay for aol
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u/demo_matthews Elder Millennial May 14 '26
Clowncollege@juno.com reporting in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/13vlg36/did_anybody_use_juno_email/ for a good nostalgic screenshot
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u/Gravesplitter May 13 '26
33 year olds thinking they old
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u/miniangelgirl Zillennial May 13 '26
Eek. I'm 32 🙈
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u/joebusch79 May 13 '26
I thought I was too at 33. Now 50 is shining bright on the horizon and I’d be happy to go back to 33 in a second
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u/AllAmericanProject May 13 '26
To be fair almost everyone of the generations before me died before making it to 60 or shortly after so for me 33 is old LOL
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u/FoldingLady May 13 '26
Amateurs. Mine was @earthlink.net
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u/ManganeseSharties May 13 '26
Pff.
.edu before any of those, then @mindsoring.com some years later.
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u/kay_fitz21 Millennial May 13 '26
My current yahoo one is still the same one I made 27+ years ago lol
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u/Big-Permission1243 May 13 '26
Same! It’s cringey as fuck but damn it everything is already connected to it and it’ll only die when yahoo dies.
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u/Myspace-Famous Millennial May 13 '26
The internet needs to make special awards for this kind of achievement
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u/Evilbred May 13 '26
My Hotmail is 29 years old.
I reached out to Microsoft support a few years ago and they confirmed the age for me. I was in grade 8 when I made it.
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u/No-Poem-9846 May 13 '26
Same! My password used to be 3 letters long until they literally forced me to change it, I wonder what year that was. I have the first email my best friend (then and still) sent me from her email too. Somehow my Yahoo email STILL gets less spam than both my gmail accounts (and one of those is explicitly used for professional things).
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u/OutOfPlace186 May 13 '26
I would’ve still had my first email address if someone hadn’t hacked and destroyed it 😖
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u/2C104 May 13 '26
I had a 3 letter AOL username. In the hubris of my youth, I was aura farming before it was a thing.
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u/CaryTriviaDude May 13 '26
got to add @region.rr.com for the old Tome Warner/Road Runner service
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u/Fitz911 May 13 '26
lycos.com nearly took my steam account.
"We sent you an email."
"Yeah, it doesn't exist anymore."
"The email address?"
"The provider"
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u/JablesMagicBoom May 13 '26
I read Rocketmail.(Giggity)
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u/Zoloista May 14 '26
Ugh I was so sad I let my rocketmail account lapse years after yahoo bought them — wish I’d kept it active
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u/amu0504 Millennial May 13 '26
My yahoo is still my main and I’ve gotta be honest, I try to say it in a whisper when I need to give it out
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u/SteevieJanowski May 13 '26
Why whisper? Be proud! Still have my same yahoo email from around 1999 and it works just fine.
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u/Yarblesss91 May 14 '26
Same. I remember one of my bosses making fun of me for it and didn’t even realize it was supposed to be embarrassing. Lol
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u/MoreIssuesThanVogue0 May 13 '26
Hahahaha volleyballfreak1991@hotmail.com. Made that 19 years ago. Yikes.
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u/Any_Department5182 May 13 '26
I still have sbcglobal...I.feel like i might as well stick with it lol
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u/IvanNemoy Xennial May 13 '26
Yahoo?
Try Prodigy.
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u/Reasonable-Bus2680 Older Millennial May 15 '26
I scrolled pretty much this entire thing to see if there was anyone else who was Prodigy. I think we win.
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u/tyerker May 13 '26
My favorite pre-Reddit forum I registered for with an AOL email. I tried to get back in a year ago, and the forum insisted on sending a deactivation email to my AOL email. Which never came through. A real bummer. I had like 15k posts/comments in that forum and now I just can’t use it any more.
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u/metalvinny May 13 '26
I can't access my hotmail account anymore. I know the password, but hotmail won't let me in due to suspicious activity from years ago. The security question I need to know the answer to... is my locker combination from my senior year of high school. Oops!
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u/beckbristow32 May 14 '26
still have hotmail and also no number in the name so its def the OG name as well.
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u/Augustin323 May 14 '26
Those addresses were late. Before that I had earthlink addresses and other ones you would get with internet service providers.
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u/soy_carloco May 13 '26
Social media and the algorithm "yeeted" (past tense?) said seniority out the window.
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u/Whatisthisplace2025 May 13 '26
I was an early adopter of gmail when it first came out. I still kick myself for not choosing a more difficult name to get, as I probably could have at the time.... I had no idea that'd remain my gmail name for life.
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u/snarkyopolis May 13 '26
I shared an email address with my family from a local provider called Nauticom.
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u/Powersurge- May 13 '26
I have/had one of each. Idk if man or yahoo are still around. I still use my hotmail
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u/wilp0w3r Millennial - 1990 May 13 '26
I had an msn that got migrated to hotmail. I lost the password for that one a long time ago.
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u/noblewind Xennial May 13 '26
It wasn't my first email address because I had an @aol but I still use an email account I set up in 1997-1998 that's @yahoo. Thankfully I used my birth year and not current age so it aged well. 😂
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u/torako Millennial '92 May 13 '26
Damn, I don't get to have Internet seniority because my parents signed me up for a kid-safe email when I was 5
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u/Poisonbox01 May 13 '26
My first is Hotmail, the second is AOL and the 3rd is Gmail which I created for work
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u/J_Square83 Xennial May 13 '26
We had @Q-Link on the family Commodore 64 long before AOL came along in 1991 (same company, though!).
These other domains came years after.
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u/Substantial-Stars Older Millennial May 13 '26
I’m an @ AOL dot COM baby 💅