Young age: “[email protected] is a cool e-mail address!”
Early adulthood: “Noooo, I need to be professional, my mail is now [email protected]!”
Late adulthood: “For the sake of my privacy, I"m now using [email protected].”
At 15: I better get an email address that reflects my interests and personality!
At 25: Ok ok my name is the only permanent thing about me so it should be based on my name.
At 35: why am I revealing this much personal information in my email address? I should just have a random jumble of letters.
I use proton and they have this feature to generate a random email address based on the sits or a note. It’s a little more advanced then [email protected]. and you can deactivate the address so your main inbox stops getting spam.
Me at age 6, picking my username (and therefore first email address), knowing that it needs to be unique so I can use it for all accounts online, and also have meaning behind it so I don’t look like an idiot when I’m an adult: 🐺🖥️🌐
(this name is 27 years old and counting)
I was 10 when the Internet because publicly accessible, and 13 when I made my first ever email address. I used my current username as my email handle, which was an abbreviated version of my name.
It took me like 10 seconds to come up with it. I had a cute girlfriend who was insisting I make a private email because I was sharing my mother’s email account and my girlfriend didn’t like my mother having access to our private conversations.
It’s been 29 years now and I’m still using this username. My original email is long gone, but the username lives on.
This one is from AOL. Circa 1993/1994
E: ah, you meant your username. Nice!
Yeah, that UI isn’t from Win 9x or anything I recognize. But my first account was with AOL as well, ha.
Forever ago, in a post about “applying for jobs after graduating college” tips on Ask[fuckyouspez], I suggested creating a new email address like FirstName.MI.LastName and use that for applying to jobs, definitely don’t use your old email like [email protected].
I got banned from the sub for violating their rule of “don’t post emails addresses”.
A couple of years ago, I was applying for a work visa, and they needed my college transcripts. Despite matriculating in 19somethingsomethingoldold, my class was one of the first to use an online system that was able to be migrated into multiple subsequent generations of registrar systems, so they needed to have my school email ID, which I hadn’t thought about eleventymilliongetoffmylawn years, so THAT meant placing a call to campus IT, and providing enough personal information for them to look it up.
And that, my online friends, is when you are forced to viscerally confront that you were a deeply cringe knowitall who spent way too much time thinking your personality flaws were edgy superpowers and that knowing the name of a random reference in a Bertrand Russell book you barely understood proved how smart you were.
Mine is the most original ever: 😐
[First Name][Last Name] at Gmail and Yahoo.
Got the yahoo when they first started offering them, and the Gmail when it was invite only.
Yahoo for 90% of my online correspondence. Gmail for mostly professional / work related stuff.
You can forward emails from another address for your resume, and I don’t think siriusxm cares
Rocking my Hotmail since 1998.
Still ocassionaly typo HotMale and get a surprise.
Also still remember the throwaway my friend and I created to sign up for porn site newsletters on dial-up.
I can’t imagine what people have to listen to when they ask a customer for their email address. There will be sane people that have a “normal” address for such purposes, then there will be the ones that keep “pussysmasher_hobag@whatever dot com” as some kind of flex and make everyone else have to copy that down.
Fortunately my name and last name aren’t that common so I made an email like [email protected] for adult stuff
I had to apply to get an invite for gmail back in 03. Still got it. This tracks.
Weirdly I’m thankful someone stole and changed my password to [email protected] when I was in high school. It prompted me to generate a new, more respectable, email address. Otherwise this would be a pretty unfortunate reality for me.
That being said, fuck that guy. feel free to send that email spam and gross images on my behalf to fill up their storage.
I am still using an abstraction of my first ever Geocities password in some older accounts that I haven’t scrambled yet. Password requirements were basically nil back last century, it’s important to remember.
I still remember my icq number and password. I just double checked to see if I took my bp meds this evening
You know an adult can just get a domain name and thus get a different email address. Like [email protected]
