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What was your first email address?

FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

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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.... 🙂
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
the specific address is too embarrassing to admit 😛

hotmail in like 96-97, though. wanted an email address that I could check from school.
 
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.
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Interesting. Yes, "killing" does stand out. Until today, Ive never heard of him.
 
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.
 
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.
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Come on, you can tell us. Was it "biguy99@hotmail.com"? 😉
 
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.
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Oh crap. You just made me think of my first email client EUDORA. I didnt like outlook back then.
 
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.
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Yep....we used PINE as well and thought it was awesome at the time.
 
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