What was your first email address?

[FelixDeCat]

Mine was bobdole@cheerful.com registered in 1996. Cheerful.com was part of mail.com which at the time was offering free email accounts. Mail.com eventually failed (and was taken over by another company), but it was fun while it lasted.

Ah the halcyon days of the internet....

 

[MotF Bane]

I think it was a Yahoo account, I still have it for spam purposes. This was in... hmm, 2002?

 

[Praetor]

I had a random one provided with a local dial-up BBS that had the money to be connected to the internet at the time. I think it was some random numbers @onlinepitstop.org or something.

 

[eLiu]

zdnet something... it wasn't just zdnet at the time, but I can't remember the full name. That was in ~1997. It only lasted a couple of years b/c then they started charging so I got a yahoo.

 

[shiner]

jburke@killing.okstate.edu

I worked for in the Mathematics Department at Oklahoma State University in the early 1990's through late 1997. All our servers were named after famous mathematicians. Just so happened the mail server was named after Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing so we all had that in our address.

 

[Krynj]

potpots@hotmail.com

Made in 96 or 97.

 

[Anubis]

college

2000

 

[nageov3t]

the specific address is too embarrassing to admit

hotmail in like 96-97, though. wanted an email address that I could check from school.

 

[Firsttime]

My first one was a hotmail in 99 maybe?

 

[skyking]

hotmail when it was still hosted on freebsd machines

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
jburke@killing.okstate.edu

I worked for in the Mathematics Department at Oklahoma State University in the early 1990's through late 1997. All our servers were named after famous mathematicians. Just so happened the mail server was named after Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing so we all had that in our address.

Interesting. Yes, "killing" does stand out. Until today, Ive never heard of him.

 

[kranky]

1994, work email. PINE was our email client, handled ASCII only. About 8-10 of us got email when they first set it up. Our email address was our first name.

Even today I can still receive email sent to <myfirstname>@<mycompany>.com though there's 1,000 employees who have email. They never turned it off when they went to a firstname.lastname@<mycompany>.com addressing system.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: loki8481
the specific address is too embarrassing to admit

hotmail in like 96-97, though. wanted an email address that I could check from school.

Come on, you can tell us. Was it "biguy99@hotmail.com"?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: kranky
1994, work email. PINE was our email client, handled ASCII only. About 8-10 of us got email when they first set it up. Our email address was our first name.

Even today I can still receive email sent to <myfirstname>@<mycompany>.com though there's 1,000 employees who have email. They never turned it off when they went to a firstname.lastname@<mycompany>.com addressing system.

Oh crap. You just made me think of my first email client EUDORA. I didnt like outlook back then.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: kranky
1994, work email. PINE was our email client, handled ASCII only. About 8-10 of us got email when they first set it up. Our email address was our first name.

Even today I can still receive email sent to <myfirstname>@<mycompany>.com though there's 1,000 employees who have email. They never turned it off when they went to a firstname.lastname@<mycompany>.com addressing system.

Yep....we used PINE as well and thought it was awesome at the time.

 

[n7]

I still use it.

It's an @msn.com one.

 

[sdifox]

92 university email addr. I am assuming you are excluding bbs.

 

[Kelemvor]

Mine was with ExecPC. One of the largest BBS systems back in the 80s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExecPC_BBS

 

[irishScott]

gamefreak441@hotmail.com, 1999

 

[Jabbernyx]

IIRC, a CompuServe one

 

[zoiks]

something at prodigy.com.

 

[amdskip]

yahoo

 

[drum]

yahoo 9 years ago, still use it

 

[randomlinh]

first non-isp... lnguyen@hotmail.com

I had to stop using it because I was hit so hard with spam I couldn't deal with it anymore. This was before hotmail was owned by microsoft, and of course before good spam filters.

 

[lokiju]

Hotmail.

Still have the account 14 years later.