Lol, that's true.
The oldest email address I still use was created in the 90s.
@fzer0 A few years ago, some commotion in my math department was created when someone applied to our Masters track from the address "[email protected]"
@fzer0 my oldest one, still in use, is from 1999

@fzer0 my oldest email account was a gmail from 2016, but it got nuked by google thanks to somebody reporting my content for "illegal material"

it was just me doing a guitar cover of a song 😭

@kq @fzer0
But did you have a cover license?

Licensing rules are insane, but unless you did, they were technically correct.

@leeloo @fzer0 it was normal for me to be copyrighted, and rather expected, but not outright account-nuked like this. That's why i found it strange :S
@fzer0 My first webmail host closed the service more than a decade ago. No 90s nostalgia emails for me.
@fzer0 also still using an address from the 90s, but I was definitely older than 10, lol.
@fzer0 might make sense to send CVs from that address for IT positions. Who would you pick, [email protected] or [email protected]

@grob

Definitly the cool dude 😎

@fzer0 my oldest had to change early because nobody would open emails from “modemvirus@”. My next oldest still causes my accountant to make jokes about it every time I call.

@reconbot

You could revive it, i guess most young HR people don't know what a modem is anymore.

@fzer0 @kundu2 unfortunately my [email protected] is not considered professional by some recruiters

@usuario @kundu2

Well, in that case, you probably wouldn't want to work for a company like that anyway. 

@fzer0 @kundu2 it’s a recruiter filter ☺️

@fzer0 ha! so many 69s, 420s and genitalia in those early emails.

When reviewing resumes in the 2010s, I was shocked how many people applied for work with those same horrific emails.

@fzer0
How?

I've had
- School email. Not in school anymore.
- Work emails. Changed jobs.
- ISP emails. Changed ISP.
- Free emails, including one from the big search engine company... @altavista.net. Needed to create a new one every time whatever free mail company I was using disappeared.

@leeloo

GMX exists since 1997 and my account there must be one of the oldest ones 😁

I mostly use it as a trash mail account tho.

@fzer0
I have a GMX account too, but that's my newest account.
@fzer0 @leeloo Hah, I also have a gmx account, though I created it in the early 2000's (when they still had English UI).
@fzer0 My email address IS about 30 years old. Omg. I hadn’t thought of that.

@foobarsoft

You mean to tell me there are email providers from 1996 that are still operating?

@fzer0

@argv_minus_one @fzer0 Parents still have an AOL address.

Mine isn’t 30, I think it’s around 25-26. Still quite close all things considered.

@argv_minus_one @foobarsoft @fzer0 I have a yahoo email which is probably from 98 or 99

My account tpki!wklaebe is from 1997 iirc, but there's older ones right next to mine.

@argv_minus_one @foobarsoft @fzer0

@fzer0 I have a Gmail address from the days when you needed an invitation. Not quite as old, but old.

@fzer0

Uh, my email address was created during Compuserve dial-up access, only the domain changed when Microsoft bought Compuserve in the early 1990s…

@fzer0

When I was that age, email addresses came from your Internet service provider. The ones I had are long gone, and so are the providers.

They will be missed.

@fzer0 my old mailcity address from 97 still worked until just last month when lycos inexplicably switched it off without warning 😢