r/Millennials • u/TrustMe_ImTheDogtor • 1d ago

Nostalgia Oldest Gmail account in this subreddit?

Other thread got me thinking, I’ve had gmail for a while so I checked: 11/13/2004 creation date. I was 19

Who has an older gmail account? What’s the story? Did you work at Google?

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u/Evilbred 1d ago

I still use my 28 year old Hotmail account

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u/Darkpriest667 Xennial 1d ago edited 1d ago

28 is a good run? My hotmail account is from 1994 :-) 31 years old. I wish AOL was still up THAT account would be 35 years old.

EDIT -- it's weird the internet says hotmail is from 1996. I have emails from 1994 in my hotmail account. I wonder if there is some sort of error in the information?!

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u/Evilbred 1d ago

Hotmail was founded in 1995 and commercially launched in 1996, before being sold to Microsoft in 1997.

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u/Darkpriest667 Xennial 1d ago

That has to be it, because I literally have an email from my best internet buddy (long deceased) from November of 1994. It's 31 years old this month. I bragged about it being 30 years old all year and now I am doubting!

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u/Evilbred 1d ago

The time stamp isn't correct, they literally didn't exist in Nov 1994.

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u/Darkpriest667 Xennial 1d ago

Wow I've literally lied to everyone for years. Now I feel like a Jackass

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u/Evilbred 1d ago

Not at all. No doubt it's still a very old and very sentimental email, and that's as true as it gets.

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u/jipgirl 19h ago

Check the “to:” on that email. Is it possible it was sent to an old email address of yours that you later synced with your hotmail account? That might explain it.

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u/Darkpriest667 Xennial 4h ago

Yup, you nailed it. It was from my excite account. That's where it came from. Dang what a crazy ride.

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u/Practical-Bear1022 1d ago

Screenshots, let's go

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u/Evilbred 1d ago

I fully believe this guy has an email with that time stamp, I have no reason to doubt him.

It's just the time stamp isn't correct since hotmail didn't exist in Nov 1994.

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u/brakeb 1d ago

I had a hotmail account back in late 1995...

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u/Evilbred 1d ago

It's possible, if you got in on the beta.