What's your oldest active account on a website, Era?

[Seraphis Cain]

Just realized I've had my eBay account since 2001, and my GameFAQs account since 2002. Nearly 20 years and they're still active (though I rarely, if ever, use either these days). Hell, I was a senior in high school when both of those were created. Crazy.

How about you, Era?

 

[Deleted member 23850]

NeoGAF. My Amazon account is no longer active.

 

[It’s Time To Go]

My AOL account from like 2004 is still active.

 

[Typhon]

Probably my Gamefaqs account, 16 years.

 

[greenbird]

GameFAQs, from 2002. Then probably my gmail account, iirc was during the beta.

 

[Quantum Leap]

The first thing I ever signed up for when I was 15 was my hotmail account.

 

[BrokenMill]

Hotmail before Microsoft bought it in 1997, so about 22 years old.

 

[rhindle]

Probably Amazon. 1997.
It feels weird even typing that.

 

[ClivePwned]

amazon uk from about 2001. Amazon US acc is older but I haven't used it in a few years.
almost every site i frequented then doesn't exist, or has merged with something else or morphed into something else

also, you didn't need an account for any site you weren't buying stuff from.

 

[efr]

'94ish AOL email. Use it for signup shit.

 

[SpitztheGreat]

Jeez, I thought either my ebay or amazon accounts, or IMDB, but they've all been lost or restarted at some point. I guess my oldest confirmable active account is on SomethingAwful, 2005.

 

[Liyfda]

Definitely Neopets, 2000? 2002? November 18, 2002

I remember sending a physical letter to Neopets saying that my parents are allowing me to use the website because I was under 13.

 

[defaltoption]

I start used to start new accounts all of the time for trials or to secure an email or username so I can't touch any of y'all. I have an Xbox account from 07/08 and a a Gmail account maybe 10 years old. Both aren't used at all but I have logged in once of twice in the last year. My first email was an AOL back when that was thing but I don't even remember what it was even though for some reason I do remember my first email password ever.

 

[El Bombastico]

My Yahoo email account is from 2001 or there abouts.

My friend's dad still uses his AoL email address that he got back in 1995.

 

[Lost Knight]

Gamespot account circa 2006.

 

[TheDutchSlayer]

Hotmail from 2000
And I use my steam account since the beta period in 2003.

 

[Sgtpepper89]

probably one of my 3 alt accounts on this site. Oh shit ive said too much, cya

 

[lacer]

also GameFAQs, 2001. would have been 1997 or 98 but i suicided. ah, memories of the metal and rap boards, and the cesspit that was LUE

 

[Rosé Fighter]

yahoo.

Gamefaqs if forums, 12 years now.

 

[PuppetMinion]

Got hotmail basically at the start. not sure if that would be 96 or 97.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

also GameFAQs, 2001. would have been 1997 or 98 but i suicided. ah, memories of the metal and rap boards, and the cesspit that was LUE

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Damn. GameFAQs. That brings back memories. I remember using up all my parents' printer paper one day when I printed the entirety of a FFVII walkthrough lol

 

[Kevers]

If AIM still existed it would be like 1998. But it doesn't so I guess another message board from 2003 is still kicking.

 

[chaobreaker]

I was going to say my Neopets account (which still exists in their database but is currently locked) but I remembered my dad made hotmail accounts for all of my siblings in the early aughts.

 

[Sieffre]

My Yahoo account is from January 5, 1997, and that was because Yahoo bought Geocities and I was forced to give up my Geocities e-mail for Yahoo. My eBay account is from March 23, 1999.

 

[Yataran]

Probably Yahoo... I opened an account to have an email address, which I still use from time to time (because reasons and because the spam I receive there sometimes is amazingly weird!), and I can see that I opened it in April 2000... I just found out that I had saved the welcoming email!

 

[roguesquirrel]

I have an angelfire account that dates back to around 97-99 thats still up. I check in on it every now and again for nostalgias sake. Used it as file storage for various things off and on till like 07 so its a neat lil time capsule to dig through

 

[Liyfda]

Damn. GameFAQs. That brings back memories. I remember using up all my parents' printer paper one day when I printed the entirety of a FFVII walkthrough lol

Click to shrink...

Hahaha yes!! Definitely used up all the printing paper in the house to print out every Gamefaqs walkthrough & cheats of games I wanted to play.

 

[Annihilo]

my steam account is 14 years old

 

[Deleted member 5334]

Trying to think.. Maybe Sonic Retro? Theoretically hadn't the forum shifted a bit from the old software, it would definitely be much older than that. That was January 2003 when I joined the new forum when they shifted over and I still participate occasionally on there. That aside, one yahoo email account I still occasionally use is pretty damn old (2001ish?), but that's as far as I can remember in terms of old active accounts.

 

[menacer]

Either my old AOL or Yahoo account from the 90s. Oldest forums or gaming account I can think of is Gamers.com which later turned into 1up.

 

[Bio]

Probably the account at the site I write for. Would be 19 year this month.

 

[Poppy]

i dont really use my ancient hotmail account so i guess possibly my steam account from 2003

 

[Scarlet Death]

tik tok hi im bb

I'm pretty sure it's either soulseek or christianforums. The first account I ever opened tho was a prodigy act in 1996? I was 9 and my dad made me a website and taught me how to do telnet and ssh stuff around then. If having a website counts as an account?

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Both ebay- and amazon-accounts are from 2002.
There's probably still a Lycos-account somewhere that's older.

 

[caff!!!]

Grandfathered ISP email from 2004-2005

 

[Rhete]

Yahoo: 1/24/98
Newgrounds: 4/24/00
Gamefaqs: 6/20/00

Those are the oldest

 

[Claude Augario]

IGN - Nov 2000
GameFAQs - Feb 2001

 

[Dan-o]

Does Hotmail count? If so, that.
Can't recall which year I got it but it was between '96 and '98.

 

[offshore]

Hotmail for sure, which was probably around 2003/4. Though today I only use it as a dummy account and have it linked to my main outlook address.

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Hotmail and i still use it to this day.

14 years since i opened it, i was smart to not have a dumb ass name.

 

[Feep]

AOL is still active from 1996. GameFAQs probably from 99 or so.

 

[Strafer]

Probably my gamespot account

2004-08-12

or maybe my Spray mail which I got around 2001 I think, no way to check that on the site.

 

[Mivey]

An account in a German (mostly) gaming board, multimediaxis.de from 2006

 

[Stuntman]

Hotmail and it's 17000 unread emails, almost 20 years on the two accounts that i use to register on games and shit.

 

[GoutPatrol]

GameFAQs, I guess. July 2001 when I was 13. Then I guess Amazon,but I got Gmail pretty early too in 2005.

 

[Deleted member 3888]

hotmail

 

[2PiR]

yahoo & hotmail

 

[Shan]

I wish I could see when I created my Hotmail account but it's at least minimum 15 years ago. Beside that my other oldest account is on an old, now inactive, Timesplitters fan forum. I think it was around 2006 or so when I made the account.

 

[Joni]

GameFAQs: May 11th, 2002.

 

[BeeDog]

Hotmail account from early 2001, even have it as part of the email address. My main Gmail account is from early 2004, and my Discogs account is from April 2005.