How old is your GMail account?

[Whompa]

From back when it was in beta

 

[BarrBarr]

I got mine on 11/19/2004. I remember when people in my highschool started talking about it, and getting invites. I had to ask a senior for one of his invites.

 

[ffdgh]

12/19/07. Neat.

 

[Tezz]

Circa 2006. I had to be sent an invite to join. But I've since lost access to that account. My current gmail is from 2010.

 

[Turnbuckle]

8/30/04

I believe I got mine from a beta invite off gaf.

 

[turbobrick]

Sat, Apr 1, 2006, 12:36 AM

I think I've had my hotmail/outlook account since 1998, but I don't know if there's a way to check.

 

[jett]

My oldest email is from December 2005.

 

[Soda]

May 4th, 2004. Can anyone beat that?

 

[cyress8]

10/1/2005

The day Google slowly started pulling me into their ecosystem.
Just decided to look at my old emails and see I emailed myself a decent amount of college work. Time to go down this rabbithole.

 

[Sgt. Demblant]

Just checked: 2008.
I created the account for my college application.

 

[itsgreen]

August 2004

 

[Chucker]

It was in 2004, back when you could still trade invites for goods.

I think my brother traded one for like a sachertorte from Germany for one?

 

[Lionheart]

05 or 06 but my Hotmail account is 1998. Still use it.

 

[Deleted member 14313]

The oldest of my Google accounts' (that I know of) history appears to start on 7 October 2010.

 

[EssBeeVee]

8/7/09 according to the POP method. Thought it would be older as sure I got a beta invite

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Pop is when you enabled it so it only starts then. Because I turned my pop on at 2011 butwas already getting emails since 2005

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Beta account.

I'd probably have to look through some old Outlook backup files.

 

[ghostemoji]

Whenever beta invites were a thing.

 

[Tremorah]

2004 or 2005

 

[jay]

I was invited before it was open to the general public. So whenever that was.

 

[cyress8]

I forgot I use to be a mod at a couple places. Think I need to put in my application here at Era.

 

[TheDutchSlayer]

From back when it was in beta

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Just a side note it was in beta for over 10 years :P

 

[EssBeeVee]

I forgot I use to be a mod at a couple places. Think I need to put in my application here at Era.

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Lmao being mod on a forum on a php hosting site and was one of the guy who accepts or rejects people who can use the host. And I didn't know php. Somehow got the position because of the way I carried myself there or they were just looking for someone

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

September 2004. Had to go through some hoops for that invite but worth it to get a first name.last name email address. I still remember how everyone lost their minds over 1gb.

 

[lunarworks]

I got a beta invite from someone who was in the first round of beta invites. I honestly don't remember when that was.

 

[janoGX]

2004

 

[EvilChameleon]

December 18th, 2008.

 

[Kamek]

2004 shout outs to my boy for giving me the invite.

 

[DrFunk]

So old I was in the Beta program

 

[Solace]

2004 from a beta invite. I don't have my welcome E-mail so there isn't any way to find out the exact date?!

 

[BasilZero]

If I remember right, 2004 - back when I was in High school and needed a email lol.

My second one was made back in 2006 or 2007.

 

[LProtagonist]

June 15, 2004

 

[Aeana]

 

[BeeDog]

My email handle that I still actively use actually contains 2004 in it, and I believe I got it as soon as Google opened the semi-public beta.

EDIT: 2004-09-13, according to the POP setting.

 

[dreams]

My first gmail account was 2004, but the one I use now was 2009. Still can't believe even that was 10 years ago, holy shit.

 

[louiedog]

Jun 21, 2004

 

[Valcrist]

3/23/06. Took me a while to hop off Hotmail but once I did, I didn't go back. It was getting real bad at that point anyway.

 

[Deleted member 3208]

9/8/09 . This year it will be 10 years old.

 

[Gambit61]

Wow, mine is from 9/2/2004 during the beta phase. Didn't realise it's been so long. I even found a photo account I completely forgot existed.

 

[DSP]

I was in the invite only beta back in the day. Feels like a life time ago.

"1GB" space was the big thing back then LOL.

 

[Radicality Incident]

February of 2005 for me. I also don't care about "inbox zero" or anything like that so combine that with my account age and I have 24,086 unread emails.

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

9/9/04

Just my name. I get other people's email semi often who have a similar name.

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Same date and issue here as well. Since I jumped on Gmail I never looked back.

Just remembered I got the invite from a giveaway thread on the Anandtech forums way back when.

 

[Sunster]

2016. I opened 2 Gmail accounts then. 1 for personal and the other was for job applications.

 

[tatwo]

11/29/04 which was on my birthday 😎

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Oooo... Spooky... I have same bday.

My first account is from 14.9.2005.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

February of 2005 for me. I also don't care about "inbox zero" or anything like that so combine that with my account age and I have 24,086 unread emails.

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You're doing pretty good. I have 59,166 Unread. I deleted quite a few recently.

 

[Veliladon]

6/19/04.

 

[manzoman96]

Only a few years old, I was using Yahoo back in the day.

 

[TheDutchSlayer]

February of 2005 for me. I also don't care about "inbox zero" or anything like that so combine that with my account age and I have 24,086 unread emails.

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I would go insane I have 0 unread but I also never delete a single email.

 

[BLEEN]

So old, they used to accept 2 and 3 character emails during the alpha and beta lmao

 

[mavericktopgun]

Since it became available. So since almost forever now.

 

[sooperkool]

2004 from a beta invite. I don't have my welcome E-mail so there isn't any way to find out the exact date?!

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New method is to type this: before:2005/01/01 nto the search box and find the oldest email.