Tell me about your first email address

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!

• 18
• 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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@gmail

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 😀

Wow, don't remember all the details, but it was {...}!decnet!sandbox!wpns

It's 1998 a create an account at zipmail.com.br , other at Hotmail an other at bol.com.br on same night, all for use with friends and to create content at geocities

God, this brings me back. I was a PC support technician, and we were still running Windows 3.1! I had a copy of AOL and created an ID. Little did I know at the time that would also be my first email address. I was still in college, so I must have been 20 or 21

I was curious with AOL, had my modem for old BBS boards, and eventually found the Internet through college and work. From there, I was hooked. Soon after I was using Mosaic and Netscape, and downloading news groups.

I still have that AOL address to this day.

I was 8-9 years old, it was agente001@hotmail.com. I thought it was cool (spy kids was on my brains). I get the email to play games of The Triplets

First email from russian mail.ru Still alive.

This portal I got from science magazine article about internet. It was 2002 year.

Full email float45@mail.ru
float is double mention - is surname translation also is data type programming languages
45 is year of the Victory because I have interested in the history

I'm 34 years old

I started my comp sci degree in 1993, so I must have been 20 years old at that time. I knew about "The Internet" through a friend whose father taught at UBC, and knew that I wanted an account on the university's system, and during the freshman orientation, I asked the guy showing us around campus about that. As new students, we weren't going to get an account in the computer science department's system for another two years, but the university had a pool of VT100 terminals connected to some Linux PCs that were able to get online, and that's where I got my first account and email address: q09960@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de - that's got part of my student id and the name of one of the Linux PCs in there. That finally let me get in touch my Canadian friend through his dad's UBC address. Email software choices at the time were pine and elm, just like your browser choices were gopher and gopher.

A year later I had a student job writing code for a PhD candidate, and got a "proper" account in the computer department, working on Sun workstations instead of the old VT100 terminals. NCSA mosaic had caused gopher to be replaced with HTTP, and there was even an upstart company named Netscape that made a browser with email functionality. Never looked back at pine and elm.