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Did you have Gmail back when it was cool?

When it was just being rolled out and it had to be offered to you because you were special?
ArtieKat · M
I can't remember the circumstances, to be honest. I DO remember that back then it was "@googlemail" which was a pain to type lo
ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M
@ArtieKat some accounts now are @googlemail, idk why!
ArtieKat · M
@ServantOfTheGoddess I'm not certain but I think they are interchangeable
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Had two Hotmail accounts that eventually I could never get access to. Mostly because they finally disallowed certain characters in usernames and passwords.

I initially did it that way because few knew about special characters and would never get hacked.

Now I do have a Netscape email account that I have had for thirty years. Several companies have bought out that domain name. Yet it's still active.
@DeWayfarer Wow. 30 years old. How much spam is in it?
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@LordShadowfire surprisingly little. I regularly block spam.
Lilymoon · F
I still have Gmail lol
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
@Lilymoon Me too. I tend to be old school and like it that way.
I was a grad student when it was being rolled out, and we were offered it on beta test or something similar. That would have been in the later 90's I think.
ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M
@ElwoodBlues wow you 🤩
@ServantOfTheGoddess OK, I was wrong by a few years.

I looked it up, and gmail opened in 2004, so that must have been when we started.
ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M
@ElwoodBlues oh I was imagining you were on some secret inside track before that! Still, you were among the first.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
I somehow managed to hold on to my university email account for 10 years after I graduated. When I learned it was to be deleted, I signed up in panic to gmail, the first service that came to hand 😐
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Yes I still have the stupid email address from like 2004 or something.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@deadgerbil Pathetic. I bet you didn't even have a cool email address.
deadgerbil · 22-25
@CountScrofula Genericuser@gmail
ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M
@CountScrofula yes it was cool then!
hunkalove · 61-69, M
I've had a gmail account for about 14 years to use for my writing but I rarely look at it. I always have to go back through old diaries to find my password.
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
Lol, no. I stuck with AOL long after it was no longer cool.
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@sarabee1995 My friend with whom I share a Netflix account still has his wife's AOL address as the primary address for it. People are definitely still using AOL.
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@LordShadowfire Oh I'm sure... But let's be honest about it ... Any cool factor associated with AOL was already on the way out when I got my account at like ten years old.
Coralmist · 41-45, F
I had to make one for something or other but have not checked it in 2 years....😧
ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M
@Coralmist you might find some really fun or interesting messages in there if you do check now...!
calicuz · 51-55, M
I still have Gmail. 😎
@Jeephikelove me too, isn't Gmail pretty standard?
calicuz · 51-55, M
@Bexsy

I thought so. The next they'll tell me is Yahoo Mail is so 2010. 🤷‍♂️
@calicuz I've had that one for, damn. Don't want to say how long.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
Yes. I had Gmail back when it required an invitation to get it.
ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M
Yeah and now there is commercials all over it.
Ontheroad · M
Ummm, it isn't cool anymore? Oh well.
@Ontheroad IDGAF. They give out email addresses like candy. I'll always have one.
HumanEarth · 56-60, M
Google was never cool
SW-User
Yup still do
DDonde · 31-35, M
I've had one since high school.
No, back then my email address was whoopee_yippee@yahoo.com.

That's right. Bask in my coolness.
Lilnonames · F
I still have my Hotmail account

 
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