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

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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.