…google’s old dejanews archives don’t go back as far as my usenet activity, but i doubt i had any old web content which predates where they pick up unless we include legacy media archives like newspaper or television; for that matter, i think a lot of old yearbooks are online now, too…
…anyway, if we’re only counting web-first content, i didn’t make my first website until like `94 and all my hosts before like 2005 are decades gone by now…
several of my passwords 🥺
ICQ.
Wait, they’re gone‽
Uh-oh!!!
I feel partially responsible for a lot of culture, from certain emojis to certain styles of writing and roleplay, and for that I’m very sorry.
The 90’s were a pioneering time on the internet and if you had even a little digital art skill and a good sense of humor, you could quickly create entire movements of proto-memes and humor systems.
being a clown on something awful was really good times
Online banking since 1999 same bank.
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.
The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.
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AA gets in a rocket and goes up to heaven to fight God in a katana battle. In the end they both get killed by Buddha.
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AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.
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Jesus’s Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.
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AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.
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the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.
I’m no greybeard in comparison to the wizards here, but can still probably log into my webkinz account from 2008. I think they still have a legacy app anyhow lol
I’m sure you can find old forum posts of mine from when I was an internet baby but couldn’t log back in to those, if an account was even required back then lmao
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).
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.
My email address is 26 years old.
My Yahoo email address is 27 years old.
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.
I can still log into my Slashdot /. account, I think. That’s from 1997-98?
Same here. Although that’s not my oldest.
