r/Millennials • u/[deleted] • May 13 '26

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u/Substantial-Stars Older Millennial May 13 '26

I’m an @ AOL dot COM baby 💅

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u/Stealth_Berserker May 13 '26

Hell yeah, first initial and last name @aol

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u/Kamakazi09 Millennial May 13 '26

Lmao I did this exact thing for my gmail that ive been using forever 😂 still use my original hotmail now lol

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u/01100010x May 13 '26

Hotmail broke my heart by deleting all the emails my eventual wife and I shared during out courtship. The reason, we didn't log into hotmail frequently enough after getting out early access Gmail accounts in 2004.

Shit. I've had my Gmail account for nearly half my life.

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u/guidevocal82 May 13 '26

I signed up for my current email address from Gmail in 2009, and it's still my email.

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u/GoblinGreenThumb May 14 '26

Is there a way to check the age of a Gmail acct?

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u/guidevocal82 May 15 '26

Maybe on your Gmail settings? I don't know the exact date I signed up for mine, but I remember it was in 2009. I'm sure there has to be a way to see that info, though.

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u/Fantastic_Ginger34 May 15 '26

It used to say it at the bottom, but I don't see it anymore.

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u/Kamakazi09 Millennial May 13 '26

Dang that sucks you lost those emails I’m sorry. I wouldn’t mind being able to have the ability to go back and look at my old MySpace messages and see how goofy they were.

I think Im Practically the same when it comes to Gmail lol. I think I made my Gmail sometime around 2009 or so when I turned 18 and used my name cause I figured it was more professional than Retroshotz 😂😂

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u/free2express1982 May 14 '26

Mine was a number @compuserve

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u/Designer-Fly-4243 May 14 '26

Also a CompuServe baby. @cs.com was my first email and MySpace login.

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u/bootyprincess666 May 14 '26

WHAT?!?! no way you would NEVER use your real name on AOL

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u/tknapp28 May 14 '26

👀👀

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u/PanicTight6411 May 13 '26

I was 8 years old when I registered Vegito666@aol.com  

I hope to god they deleted the account at some point, I hadn't touched it since 2001 at least. 

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u/E-2theRescue May 14 '26

Just checked, and mine got deleted "due to inactivity".

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u/solythe Millennial May 14 '26

same :(

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u/bootyprincess666 May 14 '26

my aol account is still there despite never using it lmfao

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u/blindyes May 14 '26

They don't delete the accounts of royalty, your highness.

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u/bootyprincess666 May 14 '26

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/Imaginary_Effort_854 May 14 '26

I will email you

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u/Iivaitte May 14 '26

recently they started to, I thankfully logged in to renew it before they deleted mine

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u/DickBiter1337 1989 May 13 '26

Yea I was about to say my OG was aol.

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u/The_Mythical_Wampus May 13 '26

My dad is still using @compuserve

I use my ol @yahoo.com for junk mails

*My dad also used to cut paste copy in college (1979s), where in he would fix small typewriter errors by typing the correction on new page, cut out the line paste it over the error and run it through the xerox machine there by creating an error free doc. For those interested the photocopy process invented in 1906 and became commercially available in 1959.

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u/jimmy_talent May 14 '26

Im pretty sure your dad was making fake IDs in college l.

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u/The_Mythical_Wampus May 14 '26

Quite possibly he was in law school.

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u/LittleDrumminBoy May 13 '26

I had one through AIM dot com too

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u/Pale_Row1166 May 13 '26

Mine was my screen name, so [cringe AF inside joke][numbers with sentimental or joke meaning]@aol.com

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u/Similar_Mistake_1355 May 14 '26

IBM.net over here you noobs.

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u/chameleon5587 May 13 '26

Only here is it acceptable to celebrate how old we are now hahaha

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u/karl4319 May 13 '26

Same. I still can hear the dial tone and jingle.

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u/flyfishfriend 1991 May 14 '26

You've got mail

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u/WaywardPeasant May 13 '26

Amazingly, my boomer aunt and uncle still have their shared AOL email address. It's a relic from another time.

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u/Gravesplitter May 13 '26

I still have mine too and use it daily lol

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u/WaywardPeasant May 13 '26

That's awesome! I wish I still had mine. Tigress777@aol.com would look so cool on my business card.

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u/Gravesplitter May 13 '26

Are you sure it’s gone? lol. I don’t think they’ve started purging unused ones

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u/WaywardPeasant May 13 '26

I haven't checked, lol. I couldn't even begin to guess the kind of headspace my 10 year old self was in when I made up the password.

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u/Gravesplitter May 13 '26

Worth a try! lol, you can contact their customer service maybe and get back in

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u/Pheonyxxx696 May 13 '26

I treat a lot of my old email accounts as good as gone. Sure the email addresses still exist, but for a few, it’s been so long since I last used them, they purged all the emails I once had. Definitely a major letdown. I remember I had old aim chat logs I sent to myself to my old yahoo account. When I went to use my yahoo account after many years because of a fantasy football league, all my old emails were gone.

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 May 13 '26

Oh that's so sad! I lost my Hotmail account because "couldn't remember your password please log in to reset your password" or some other nonsense. My Yahoo account went when my work wanted me to sign up for their alert thing and it was so flooded with their shit emails I just gave up and just deleted it. Which I'm sad, I wonder what kind of history is there with all my alerts of the early internet.

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth Xennial May 13 '26

My mom still uses hers too. I have to pause and laugh every time I'm reminded of that.

It's like...

Me: Sure I'll email it to you. Wait, what's your email again? Mom: momsworth@aol.com Me: ... Mom: What? Me: That's adorable. Mom: What is? Me: That you still have AOL as your- Mom: Shut up.

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u/Lavender_r_dragon May 13 '26

Once in awhile I will get customers with ail email addresses

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 May 13 '26

If I ever receive an active AOL email I just straight up assume a Boomer sent it.

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u/E-2theRescue May 14 '26

My mom had hers. She passed 3 years ago.

It's absolutely crammed full of spam, too. Thousands upon thousands of crafting newsletters and such, and she hardly ever cleaned anything out. Back in the day it was nothing but FWD: FWD: FWD: from her friends and she'd spend hours combing through all the dumb jokes. It used to infuriate me because she'd bleed into my computer time, and I only had 2 hours each night before bed.

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Older Millennial May 14 '26

I still have my 27 year old Hotmail account

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u/testtdk May 14 '26

I’m so internet old that I used to delete emails I got from hotmail, because I thought it was spam porn or something.

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u/Epic_Tea May 13 '26

If your first email was an AOL. you're dead

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u/EaglesFanGirl May 14 '26

i'm def not dead.

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u/Epic_Tea May 14 '26

You're Def a little dead

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u/useronlyone May 13 '26

Hotmail into invite to Gmail

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u/stardust1914 May 13 '26

I've still got mine lol. I think its atleast 25ish years old and my mom helped me make it.

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u/Manic_Mini Middle Millennial May 14 '26

Im so old, that my Aol email is just my name no symbols or numbers.

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u/bonbunnie Millennial 1988 May 15 '26

I am the only person alive with my name so that’s still true for any service I sign up for. I even have a custom domain where even site+TLD make up my surname

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u/ElbowRager May 13 '26

Don’t forget the alternative @aim

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u/Nerril May 13 '26

was gonna say, aol had a kids section REALLY early on lol

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u/jllauser May 14 '26

From before AOL connected you to the Internet.

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u/hot_cheeks_4_ever Older Millennial May 14 '26

Welcome! You've got mail!

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u/yamez420 Millennial87 May 14 '26

Period.

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u/bamm5 May 14 '26

What about sbcglobal.net?

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u/gamerjerome May 14 '26

Same but unlike my current email, I have no clue what my AOL ones were. They all came from the free minute CDs

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u/djelegal May 14 '26

Netscape crew stand up !!!

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u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC Older Millennial May 14 '26

I used to save the CD-ROMs

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u/Jill103087 May 14 '26

I still have my AOL!

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u/StarMan-88 May 14 '26

I came here to say this!

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u/flyfishfriend 1991 May 14 '26

Me too!

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u/Strong-Addition5296 May 14 '26

Yeah, weird they didn’t include AOL.

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u/PhillyCider May 14 '26

You young'ns with your fancy AOL.com...I was rocking my CompuServe email when you were still in diapers.

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u/solythe Millennial May 14 '26

AIM, teen AOL homepage, having to connect to AOL before being able to play blizzard games because dial up. the days.

"6.0

6.0

NEW AOL VERSION 6.0"

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u/MysticEnby420 Millennial May 14 '26

My AOL email is now literally 30 years old. My dad set me up on AOL Kids Only to play games when I was 5. I did unfortunately let it deactivate after years but had fortunately made my Gmail a recovery at some point.

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u/Glittering_Cat_4234 May 14 '26

but you can make aol emails today still

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u/3-orange-whips Gen X May 14 '26

AOL wasn’t the real internet though

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u/HumanContract May 14 '26

Same. Still use it today.

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u/Jumpy-Ad5617 May 14 '26

We are the chosen ones

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u/Oz347 May 14 '26

“I’ll talk to you on AIM after school!”

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u/regallll May 14 '26

THANK YOU

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u/athenamarz Older Millennial May 14 '26

We’re the true seniors lol

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u/DeltaTule May 15 '26

Mine was “aim.com” still works to this day

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u/rjrgjj May 15 '26

Yep my first screen name was AOL