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! 😉
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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.
my personal gmail, I still use it today
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.
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!
My hotmail.com account, and while I now don't use it, it is still forwarded to my outlook.com account.
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.
The username is purely random and meaningless.
I am still using it now.
My first email was somethingCantremember@hotmail.com and yahoo one. tatmail2002@yahoo.com is still active and strictly for receiving unwanted emails:)
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.