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...google's old dejanews archives don't go back as far as my usenet activity, but i doubt i had any old web content which predates where they pick up unless we include legacy media archives like newspaper or television; for that matter, i think a lot of old yearbooks are online now, too...
...anyway, if we're only counting web-first content, i didn't make my first website until like `94 and all my hosts before like 2005 are decades gone by now...
several of my passwords π₯Ί
ICQ.
Wait, theyβre goneβ½
Uh-oh!!!!
I feel partially responsible for a lot of culture, from certain emojis to certain styles of writing and roleplay, and for that I'm very sorry.
The 90's were a pioneering time on the internet and if you had even a little digital art skill and a good sense of humor, you could quickly create entire movements of proto-memes and humor systems.
being a clown on something awful was really good times
Online banking since 1999 same bank.
I have a hotmail address that I still regularly use for silly stuff. The earliest email I can find under it is from March 2006.
One of my Yahoo addresses is from 2005
I got my first Gmail address through an invite during the beta release in late 2004.
The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.
AA gets in a rocket and goes up to heaven to fight God in a katana battle. In the end they both get killed by Buddha.
AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.
Jesus's Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.
AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.
the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.
Iβm no greybeard in comparison to the wizards here, but can still probably log into my webkinz account from 2008. I think they still have a legacy app anyhow lol
Iβm sure you can find old forum posts of mine from when I was an internet baby but couldnβt log back in to those, if an account was even required back then lmao
I'll probably still have some accounts on obscure forums I can't remember. But something I still use fairly regularly is my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, he's almost old enough to drink and drive (not at the same time).
I still maintain a Gmail account from their beta test days. I had to get an invite. 2003 or 4ish? Don't use it for much anymore, but I still have it.
My email address is 26 years old.
My Yahoo email address is 27 years old.
I've been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.
I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors .. assuming that they are still in existence.
Random question, but did you ever come across Steve Kangas on Usenet?
A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals?
I've been reading about him over the last few months. Really interesting guy. If things had turned out differently, he almost certainly would have ended up a very vocal present day Fediverse user. Who knows, maybe the entire internet might have ended up a little different than it is today. He certainly seemed to be aware of a lot of things that were quietly happening in America that most people wouldn't realize for a few decades.
I can still log into my Slashdot /. account, I think. That's from 1997-98?
Same here. Although that's not my oldest.
Just to add some perspective and context to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names
I would've said Elfwood, since I posted some cringey drawings there in the late 90's. Since Elfwood is closed, remnants of my presence still exist on TOR.N (theonering.net). It was a pre-movie Lord of the Rings fan website, which, amazingly, still has Barliman's chat room. I wonder if my Battle of Fanghorn Forest poem is still there somewhere π€
ETA: so in answer I'd say about 28 years old. If you'll excuse me, I need to drink some Ensure and clean my dentures
My somethingawful forum account is 24.
Hotmail from 1998.
Iβm with you there. I still have my cringe edgy 1998 Hotmail login that has morphed into the credentials for all my Microslop dealings, I never use it for mail, but I have unfortunately had to give it to people professionally during some azure related training and onsite sales pitches.
For good or ill I still use it for mail, hell with 'em! I just don't want to go through the hassle of brainstorming all those who have it and then changing it where necessary.
Anything that had that email wouldβve been from my teens to early 20βs since I ended up with a Gmail account in like the 3rd wave of beta invites. That was my grown up email, and so anything of value is there while the Hotmail only gets spam and ms updates. But can definitely appreciate sticking with 1 account, since Iβve not swapped emails since my early 20βs for the same reason you describe.
Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.
My Yahoo account is 25 years old I think. My first email address.
My yahoo email address, created in the early 2000s. I receive a yearly reminder on my current email that it's about to be deactivated due to inactivity, so I log on to keep it alive. No reason really.
I think the oldest account I can still get into is on 3wheelerworld.com. I still get my birthday email from them every year.
I am not "present" in the www at all, but my oldest e-mail address that is still working is from 1996.
The wayback machine has a snapshot of my personal Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds fan site from October 2002. Digging around a bit, the site and its forum must have been online since at least August of the same year. (Edit: if you dig around long enough you'll probably find forum accounts from 2001 or even older but those old phpBB forums usually only have a fraction of their threads preserved).
The oldest thing that's still in use is a forum account from September 2003. Last post with that account was two weeks ago. The community is not as active as it used to be but we still do in-person meetups at least twice a year.
I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.
My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.
My 24 year old DeviantArt account, probably. Don't know what I had before that. Oh, and my steam account turns 22 this year, I think.
Does Angelfire keep websites up after 30 years of no activity?
I still have my AOL account from the mid-90s. It uses my oldest handle, a nickname from when I was a kid. I still use that email as a spam address, for when I have to provide an email address for some passing thing.
My livejournal account, my email, and my website are all of an age, though the website is oldest. But my submissions on Z2 are my oldest artifacts on an active website.
There's a Pokemon fan forum that I originally joined around 2004 I believe. They've had a relaunch since then, so my current account is "only" from 2009 though. I'm still ocassionally active on there, along with like 5 other users.
My GaiaOnline account, created in May 2007, still stands. I can't log into it anymore, but its presence still lingers on the site.
Everything else I've known prior to that, is now lost to time.
I have a 26 year old Whirlpool (an Australian broadband forum) account. It was made in 2000.
If you count Usenet, that goes back 30 years to 1996. It's not technically the web, but the archives can be found on the web
The oldest one I still use regularly is probably my Steam account which is 17 years old (as of today actually).
My YouTube account is coming up on 20. Probably that seeing as MySpace was wiped.
My original Angelfire website is still around from 1999.
My deviant art account is still around, it's over 20 years old now. Idk, is xanga still around? Most sites I used are gone now.
I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this "buying shit on the internet" thing wasn't going to be a scam.
Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad's office before we even got internet at home
