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What Was Your First-ever Email Address & Do You Still Use It Today?

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 cringy teenage email names (cough gamer_girl123 cough). Do we have any legacy AOL users? Yahoo, anyone? Bonus points if you still use it today! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Ralph Hightower

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.


  1. It is a combination my wife's and my middle name (contraction).ย โ†ฉ

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Benjamin Fadina • Edited

benmuyiwa@yahoo.com. The first email sent was in 2005. I am still using it.

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Adam Markiewicz

hotmail and still in use

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Mohammad Quanit

my first email address was muhammadquanit@gmail.com created back in 2010, that i am still using till now. Kind of my official email

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Raymond Price

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.

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michelemauro

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.

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Ben Butler

benfrog@well.sf.ca.us We didn't have the dot com yet. Really.

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Eric F ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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. Butโ€ฆ 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.

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Michael Baas

I guess it was somethingIforgot@compuserve.com but that's loong gone.
Later I've setup the stupidly long & redundant mbaas.michaelbaas@gmail.com expecting 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 ;)

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Julian Nicholls • Edited

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.