@dhruv3006 the first time I regisfered this nickname was on PTNet (irc), I still go there time to time to keep it alive, it has over 20 years now
I graduated in 2000 and a buddy bought a domain to host a forum so our friend group could stay in touch before social media took off. We kinda fell off when MySpace, then FB got big, but now that we’ve all abandoned the latter it’s how we stay in touch.
I love this.
I wish I had this
I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
Funny thing that, a personal homepage, I first created one 31 years ago, at a time when it was rather unusual to have one. I still have one, and now it has become rather unusual to have one once again.
Thats pretty cool !
Thanks! 😁
I have a very lonely and hungry neopet somewhere…
I have my Gmail account from early in its beta, probably in 2004. I became a Metafilter member I think in 2003. I got my everything2.com account in the late 90s I think, that might be the earliest I still remember.
I’ll probably still have some accounts on obscure forums I can’t remember. But something I still use fairly regularly is my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, he’s almost old enough to drink and drive (not at the same time).
Email account from the year 2000. Which is TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO.
I still maintain a Gmail account from their beta test days. I had to get an invite. 2003 or 4ish? Don’t use it for much anymore, but I still have it.
i still use mine to do this day. 25 years of gmail.
Been visiting http://outpost10f.com/ccc/ since 1999, and it’s still online! It’s an HTML based chat site with Star Wars and Star Trek themed rooms.
Still glorious.
Team Internet Paintball from 1994. My member number was TIP#860. Still have the patch on an old set of cammos, if I didn’t accidentally get rid of them during one of the many times I’ve moved over the years.
several of my passwords 🥺
Let me guess Password123?
at least throw an exclamation mark on there! i’m security-forward!
Crap forgot about that thanks!
My active eBay account is from 1999.
I have a hotmail address that I still regularly use for silly stuff. The earliest email I can find under it is from March 2006.
One of my Yahoo addresses is from 2005
I got my first Gmail address through an invite during the beta release in late 2004.
I forgot it was invite only! I remember getting an invite to Google’s social media. I can’t remember what that was called now…
Just to add some perspective and context to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names
I’ve been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.
I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors … assuming that they are still in existence.
Random question, but did you ever come across Steve Kangas on Usenet?
A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals?
I’ve been reading about him over the last few months. Really interesting guy. If things had turned out differently, he almost certainly would have ended up a very vocal present day Fediverse user. Who knows, maybe the entire internet might have ended up a little different than it is today. He certainly seemed to be aware of a lot of things that were quietly happening in America that most people wouldn’t realize for a few decades.
Not to my recollection. I mainly hung out on the comp.* and alt.best.of.internet groups. Together with another member we wrote the original aboi FAQ.
Edit:
Here’s something I wrote about it on another platform:
I never experienced Usenet, but seems like I have been hearing it mentioned more and more lately as the fediverse continues to grow. Never really thought about it being like an email chain of comments.
The early internet required so much more patience and attention just to use it for any reason, let alone as a way to communicate back and forth with other people in real(ish) time. We take it for granted.
