Alright, time to reveal some ancient history! What was your very first email address back in the day? And don't worry, we won't judge you for your ...
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It was a combination of the department name and my name @reading.ac.uk when I was at university.
My first work email after that was ben.sinclair@scs.dra.hmg.gb which is the kind of domain you won't see a lot!
backaben53@hotmail.com— do not use itIt was the email internet service provider, which I change two years later and lost access to all my emails. That's when I realized it was a very bad idea to have your email depends on your ISP.
In 2003 Gmail changed everything and I didn't migrate since then. I still remember this article from Paul Buchheit, Gmail's original author who explained its approach to product management
What's the right approach to new products? Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else. Those three attributes define the fundamental essence and value of the product -- the rest is noise.
Owh woah this title of post memorate me another post from @ben
Tell me about your first email address
Ben Halpern ・ Apr 21 '20 ・ 1 min read
It was a @hotmail.fr for me, but can't access to this oOooOooold account because I've been stolen.
My first ever email address would have been when I was seconded to Symantec in 1994.
Then, when I got back to Blighty, I got the company set up on Demon Internet, so my second one would have been
julian@CompanyName.demon.co.uk.I haven't used either of those since 1994 and 1998 respectively.
I've had my two main current email addresses for 15-20 years.
I guess it was
somethingIforgot@compuserve.combut that's loong gone.Later I've setup the stupidly long & redundant
mbaas.michaelbaas@gmail.comexpecting to never really use it as my main traffic comes through other domains and its only aggregated by gmail - but still, I should've picker a shorter name ;)Fun fact: The first email address ever created was "tomlinson@bbn-tenexa," which was created by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. Tomlinson is also credited with inventing the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses to separate the user name from the destination address.
lynmax@logicsouth.com. Lynmax1 is the kennel name that we use for in the AKC
Logic Source was a local dialup ISP that has since gone kaput.
It is a combination my wife's and my middle name (contraction). ↩
I'm not sure exactly what the 1st email address was, might've been a free address through a phone service or free host ISP. But… One of the first, if not the first, is my main email. My uncle setup our domain, with websites and email addresses back in 1998-99.
luisito_chester @hotmail.com
Luisito is the diminutive of my first name Luis and Chester is my dog's name. I lost access way long time ago, then recovered with support assistance and then forgot again.
The really first one - I don't remember neither the username, nor the free service where I registered it. I only used that 3-4 times though.
The first one I actually used for years is no longer in use, although I think I have some redirect set up. I was a free mailbox on one of popular Polish vortals (anyone still uses that term today?). Pretty crappy and ads-ridden, but that was the reality of the times.
I don't remember the address exactly, but it was @adelphia.net, which was my parents' ISP. That company doesn't exist anymore. Funny, at that time (early 2000s) everyone had email from their ISP. I remember Gmail was invite only and everyone was trying to get invites.
The username is purely random and meaningless.
I am still using it now.
My first email was in the university student "BBS" (yes, it was called like that). A Motorola 68010 with a few megs of ram that hosted a little less than 1k students on HP-UX. The only interface available were the VT100 terminals around the campus. Only upper-year students, and only for certain courses, had access to the B/W Sun graphics terminals that were starting to pop up. And those had Mosaic installed...
Then I got a Yahoo account, a few months after it opened. And one of the first Libero.it accounts, the first mass ISP in Italy in late 1998. And finally, Gmail, of course.
Yes, I'm old; I'm a 5-digit slashdot user.
I have a yahoo email address, which is still active. I wont share it here, it had way many stuff connected to it.
It is my name and a random number, so nothing really embarrassing.
Unfortunately, it was part of several breaches over the time, so at this point is essentially unusable.
First email I used was my family's email that we got with our ISP at the time, that I honestly don't remember.
After that, I got darthjed88@yahoo, because I liked the concept of the redneck Jedi. Then in '03 or so, I got an invite to GMail, when that was still invite-only, created an account using the same handle as here, and have been using it since. Nazis be damned, this is my handle for the past 20 years.
my personal gmail, I still use it today
benmuyiwa@yahoo.com. The first email sent was in 2005. I am still using it.
hotmail and still in use
my first email address was muhammadquanit@gmail.com created back in 2010, that i am still using till now. Kind of my official email
benfrog@well.sf.ca.us We didn't have the dot com yet. Really.
It was a yahoo account and I still use it as a tertiary account. I was a big PsiCom / Jane's Addiction fan in HS so the address includes a variation on the name Xiola. lol
year 2001 or so, i think. Yahoo, and I still use it as a recovery email address for my current email address :))))
hotbob22@hotmail.com - I haven't used it in years.
I still used this email but not actively. That reddifbol was very famous for chatting and early childhood time I thought of creating username relevant.
I dont remember the user name but it was @caramail.com probably one of the strangest login page.
My first email was somethingCantremember@hotmail.com and yahoo one. tatmail2002@yahoo.com is still active and strictly for receiving unwanted emails:)
My hotmail.com account, and while I now don't use it, it is still forwarded to my outlook.com account.