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I got my Gmail in 2005, and still heavily use it.

I want to run my own email, but I have soo much tied to it that I'm having trouble knowing where to start...

My Steam and RuneScape accounts are both over 20 years old, and I still use both regularly. Hell, RuneScape is even available via Steam.

As far as the actual oldest account, I think I have an old Yahoo! Mail account from like… Late 1997? Early 1998? Back when AOL was still sending out free demo discs in the mail.

My gmail address with my exact full name I registered about 18 years ago by invite only.

eBay is my oldest, not sure when exactly, 2001-2002-2003 something like that.

Next is my Something Awful forums account from 2005.

Probably my yahoo mail account. I've mostly transitioned off it, but a few things still come to it and it predates even my gmail account (which I barely ever use either). Apple ID's Hide My Email ability has basically rendered all the other ones pointless though since I can just generate a new fake email address whenever I want to register for something fishy. I wish phone numbers worked the same way.

I made my email account 28 years ago, and still use it daily.

Probably my google account. I'd look up the exact age but then I'd feel old.

Apparently there are dozens of us still using Hotmail. 24 years strong!

Wikipedia user account from 2002.

I guess technically my KOL. account.

Here's a question for everyone who's old enough, what is KOL and what happens to it when you turn a certain age? I've yet to meet or hear of anyone knowing this answer.

Year one Steam account, even has a unique profile badge. It's a little over 20 years old. I only made it because I bought a copy of CS: Condition Zero, and it was needed to play online.

1996 Hotmail. Created as a throwaway with no link to my work. Still working as a spam dump.

Maybe my Gmail account. I made it to play Club Penguin. I still use it when signing up for things.

I have some old forum accounts but I don't use them anymore. I also had a Minecraft account from before the Mojang and Microsoft migrations. That's gone now. :(

My League of Legends and Steam accounts are old too.

Yahoo. It was from 07

AOL, 2001

My email is my last name dot com. I've had it for 28 years.

I have an eBay account from 2000 or so, and my email is nearly as old I believe.

I don’t use the eBay account all that often now, but on and off throughout the years. Last used last year.

Gotta be my RuneScape account from 2006. Thanks to OSRS being a thing, I still play on it.

Email from 2001

Easily my /. account, using it daily since 1997 or something

Steam Acc from 2005 and YouTube from 2006

GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.

Soemthingawful forum membership. Joined in 2k2.

My first one that I still use is my Hotmail account, but now it's just my spam email, but still randomly have to use it to get some login codes and stuff

Yahoo email account I opened in 1997.

My Discord account, which I've had since the early 2020's.

Nice try Robert from Iran

I have an email address and shell account on a SCO UNIX system that I've had since 1994.

E-mail account circa 1994.

EDIT: I just checked. My Amazon account goes back to 1995 for a solid second place.