Tell me about your first email address

Ah, my first email address — that takes me back! I created it back in high school, and like most people, it was something super random. I think it was something like crazy_skater_92@gmail.com (don’t judge 😅). Back then, I used it mostly for chatting with friends, signing up for games, and getting those chain emails we all used to forward.

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I'm new on this forum, but I thought I'd jump in and share my story about my first email address. I was around 12 years old when I got my first email address. It was on Hotmail, which was pretty popular back in the day. My whole address was something like "coolcatz123@hotmail.com" - I know, super cringe. I got on email because all my friends were doing it, and it seemed like the cool thing to do. Plus, it was a great way to keep in touch with people outside of school. I remember spending hours customizing my email signature and trying to come up with the perfect email username. Nowadays, it seems like everyone has multiple email accounts for different purposes. If you're looking to expand your email collection, you might want to Buy Email Accounts. Looking back, my first email address seems so silly now, but it was a big part of my teenage years. It's funny to think about how much technology has changed since then. Thanks for letting me share my story!

I was about 10 or 11. I don't remember much, but I've made it on school, within the state servers designed for schoolarships; sorry, I don't remember the address hahaha...

The first email I've created by myself (for personal purposes) was a Hotmail account, with about 15.
I was trying to create a nice combination of my first and last names, and lozo.julio@hotmail.com came out - my parents created similar nicks for them.

I've created my current email, a Gmail account (jlozovei@gmail.com), about 4 years ago. Since then, I stopped to use lozo.julio as my primary email.

13 or so.
It was either Juno or Hotmail, i forget which came first? I still have the hotmail account but don't really use it.
I'd been on the internet since bulletin boards and 9600 baud modems, it made sense to get into email when it became available.
I'm 39 and been on computers since I was about 3 or 4. My dad owned his own business and I did data entry for him at a pre-k age. lol 1 cent per line on a TRS-80. Fun times!

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• Penn State University's Center for Academic Computing IBM mainframe (at the time, a brand, spanking new ES/9000-600 — this was 1988)
• THJ100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (still some USENET posts to be found under that one)
• School-issued
• It used to be super easy to spoof email address origins: email systems prior to at least 1997 didn't really have meaningful security to try to ensure senders were authenticated or verifiable.

Around 1988, in college. Don't remember it, but it was approximately my name at-cooper.edu -- I only used it to email other students or professors and then to post to newsgroups. In 1992, I got my first job and they had some insane email address (many special characters) from their internet provider (we didn't have a domain) -- around 1995/96, that became something normal with a company domain.

Here is a relevant Dilbert from that era that exactly described my situation: dilbert.com/strip/1996-10-22

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To use Google Play Store on my android phone.

Fun! I had an Hotmail account and was a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. Must have been 13 of 14 yo. It was themagicgal@... I did try to get in there a few years ago. But was not successful. Totally forgot the password and any of the security questions.
Got a @gmail.com with my real name now, and have had that for a while. Apparently I was the first person with my name to get a Gmail address 🤗 so no numbers or other signs added.

I also have an email address from my website. But that one I just use as an alias to go to my Gmail.

I think it was dherman@cornell.edu. No one else I knew except in my department would have an email address for another five years. I'm older than all you apparently. :-)

To the best of my recollection my first email address was on a Model 204 mainframe system in the mid-'80s -- everyone in the company had one. Could not tell you what the address was to save my life 😀

Might have had an Internet email in late '88, but definitely got one in '89 when I started at Sun. At the time mail was delivered directly from workstation to workstation, so you needed to know the name of the computer of the person you wanted to reach, e.g. hassan@ripple (internally) or hassan@ripple.sun.com externally. UUCP-style addresses also worked, so com!sun!ripple!hassan (IIRC). Good times 😀