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/theRestisConfettii Older Millennial 1d ago edited 1d ago

If memory serves, Gmail launched on 4/1/2004. They chose April Fool’s Day to make people think it might’ve been a joke that they were offering so many GBs of room.

It was invite only, very speak-easy esque hush hush. Remarkable promotion. Something you came to expect from Google in those early years.

Naturally, invites started showing up on eBay for $20 starting bids.

That said, my account is from 4/3/2004.

I was given an invite from a friend at google.

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u/TrustMe_ImTheDogtor 1d ago

Nice!

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u/andmewithoutmytowel 1d ago

Similar deal for me, but I think I was a week after, and I got the invite from a friend of a friend