Ask Lemmy

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.

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.

My email address is 26 years old.

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.

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.

the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.

My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.

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.

Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.

I think the oldest account I can still get into is on 3wheelerworld.com. I still get my birthday email from them every year.

several of my passwords 🥺

The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.

1. 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.

2. AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.

3. Jesus's Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.

4. AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.

I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.

Hotmail from 1998.

ICQ.

Wait, they’re gone‽

Uh-oh!!!!

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

My somethingawful forum account is 24.

My 24 year old DeviantArt account, probably. Don't know what I had before that. Oh, and my steam account turns 22 this year, I think.

I would've said Elfwood, since I posted some cringey drawings there in the late 90's. Since Elfwood is closed, remnants of my presence still exist on TOR.N (theonering.net). It was a pre-movie Lord of the Rings fan website, which, amazingly, still has Barliman's chat room. I wonder if my Battle of Fanghorn Forest poem is still there somewhere 🤔

ETA: so in answer I'd say about 28 years old. If you'll excuse me, I need to drink some Ensure and clean my dentures

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 have a very lonely and hungry neopet somewhere...

Email account from the year 2000. Which is TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO.

Does Angelfire keep websites up after 30 years of no activity?

The wayback machine has a snapshot of my personal Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds fan site from October 2002. Digging around a bit, the site and its forum must have been online since at least August of the same year. (Edit: if you dig around long enough you'll probably find forum accounts from 2001 or even older but those old phpBB forums usually only have a fraction of their threads preserved).

The oldest thing that's still in use is a forum account from September 2003. Last post with that account was two weeks ago. The community is not as active as it used to be but we still do in-person meetups at least twice a year.

My old Yahoo account had emails from 98 or so, I had some AOL content starting in about 94 and Prodigy before that. Before that everything i did was on multiple BBS's and don't think any are still going, the last one i looked at was back in 2008 or so and they still had the BBS archives up on a web page.

My livejournal account, my email, and my website are all of an age, though the website is oldest. But my submissions on Z2 are my oldest artifacts on an active website.

There's a Pokemon fan forum that I originally joined around 2004 I believe. They've had a relaunch since then, so my current account is "only" from 2009 though. I'm still ocassionally active on there, along with like 5 other users.

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.

The oldest one I still use regularly is probably my Steam account which is 17 years old (as of today actually).

I have a 26 year old Whirlpool (an Australian broadband forum) account. It was made in 2000.

If you count Usenet, that goes back 30 years to 1996. It's not technically the web, but the archives can be found on the web

Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad's office before we even got internet at home

I still have my AOL account from the mid-90s. It uses my oldest handle, a nickname from when I was a kid. I still use that email as a spam address, for when I have to provide an email address for some passing thing.

I am not "present" in the www at all, but my oldest e-mail address that is still working is from 1996.

Probably my Kingdom of Loathing account, my emails from before then died

My Yahoo account is 25 years old I think. My first email address.

My yahoo email address, created in the early 2000s. I receive a yearly reminder on my current email that it's about to be deactivated due to inactivity, so I log on to keep it alive. No reason really.

My Yahoo email address is 27 years old.

Probably my first account on newgrounds, must've made it back in 2003.

I lost the password to the email I registered with and with that any chances for password recovery of said account and a bunch of other stuff of my teenage years.