• @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Man, Mine was Prowler587@aol.com (I changed the numbers for leave me alone purposes) and I made it in the 90’s when I was like 13. A lot of my screen names at websites continued to be that for several years and one of those sites I still get on and use.

      Only years later as the internet evolve did I ever think to self reflect at how creepy a screen name that was while going around and hanging out in chat rooms. I picked the name because the Plymouth Prowler had just come out and I had it on one of my school folders and I thought the car looked really awesome.

      TLDNR: Plymouth made me look like a creep.

    • @uis
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      *sending rays of spam*

  • KingJalopy
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    372 months ago

    I’m 41. My screen name is my AOL screen name from 1996…

  • @Enzy
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    302 months ago

    Oh, little Billy. One day you will become the xXPussyDestroyerXx!

    • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      Hotmail, now there is a name I haven’t heard in a while. we used to troll a handsome guy at work. After people left his desk he’d come over " Guys can you stop telling staff my e-mail is HotMale@hotmail.com"

    • @RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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      82 months ago

      Thousands of dollars in games hinging on support for an almost dead domain. Brave.

      “We sent you a recovery email, good fucking luck.”

      • @HATEFISH@midwest.social
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        The email itself has likely been updated, I too have a steam login username with an email included. Cool bit of legacy flair though

      • @LemmyFeed@lemmy.world
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        My steam login is a Hotmail account but the email on file is my Gmail account. The Hotmail address is more like a username for steam.

    • @nieceandtows@lemmy.world
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      When I was graduating college 15 years ago, I wanted to create a professional firstname.lastname email. Outlook.com was starting to get traction and Hotmail was getting phased out, but I was advised to create my professional email under Hotmail.com because it would seem ‘more professional’.

      My main email is still the 007 related gmail I created first.

    • @abbadon420
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      I appreciate they’re still supporting it for us old folks

  • OhStopYellingAtMe
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    I’m almost 50 and have the same email address made up almost 30 years ago. It was so dark & edgy back then.

    I’ve aged better than it has. Luckily I have a separate address for work.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      That would put you at about the mid-90s. Peak millennial/gen-x goth/grunge/nu metal era. Makes sense.

    • @lunarul@lemmy.world
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      My first email, almost 30 years ago too, was with an ISP that no longer exists… My second email was on another domain that no longer exists. I do still have my Gmail account I got when it was invite only, but that one is just my name @ gmail (and you’d think it’s cool to manage to grab that one, but I get emails for at least 6 other different people who think that’s their address).

      • @Syd
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        12 months ago

        Woah how?? What are most of them from?

    • u/lukmly013 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      22 months ago

      Good news — no pwnage found!

      Interesting.
      I made that email address when I was 8.
      Though I’ve been always allergic to putting my main e-mail anywhere. Currently I have 14 active e-mail addresses due to that.

    • @AlexJD@feddit.uk
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      Honestly it’s so nice. I ended up buying lastname.tld so now I will always have firstname@lastname.tld even if I change provider because I can just point the domain to whatever provider I like.

  • @icedcoffee
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    Kinda bummed no one here is representing EarthLink gang. One of my professors used that email and it was clearly made in like ‘92

    • TronNerd82
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      Not to be that guy, but ackshually EarthLink was founded in 1994 and, for all I know, may or may not have offered email yet at that point.

      Also, AOL gang here, we can’t be friends.

    • LifeBandit666
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      Mine is the default password for the first router I got when I moved out. It’s just 8 random letters, but they’re MY 8 random letters.

      I change the password to it whenever we move supplier, along with the SSID, and all my IOT devices just jump back in

  • LostXOR
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    I’m still using my email from before I was 13 (don’t tell Google).

  • @clearleaf@lemmy.world
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    Reminder that your google account has a name which is not just your email address. If you don’t use google’s other services besides gmail and youtube, you probably don’t remember what it is. And you probably put in something stupid if not completely offensive. If you suddenly have to use google docs or something, people will see it.