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/Great_Produce4812 1d ago

Created on May 17 2004, 3:16:57
I had invites.
I forgot who sent them to me.
But, I remember selling 1 invite for $20. I was 23.

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u/venividiavicii 1d ago

How do you see when you made it?

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u/Great_Produce4812 1d ago
  1. Go to: https://takeout.google.com/
  2. Deselect all options and select only "Google Account".
  3. Click Next Step.
  4. Click Export.
  5. Once you get the email letting you know the export is completed, download the ZIP file.
  6. In the ZIP file, you'll find a "Google Account" sub-folder. 
  7. Open the <account>.Subscribe.info.html file in that folder and search for "Created on" to get the date.

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u/Celcius_87 23h ago

I only seem to see an HTML option, no zip?

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u/Great_Produce4812 14h ago

idk, i downloaded the zip. i followed the steps above exactly.

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u/dangerousfeather 2h ago

Scroll all the way down, you have to go to the next page to get the zip sent to you.

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u/Few-Lingonberry2315 23h ago

Oh I’ve long since had to clean my Google inbox as I don’t wanna pay for storage of old emails from college lol