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Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts sti...
My Yahoo mail account was created as a Rocketmail account, likely in 1996 or 97, when Rocketmail launched and became the biggest Hotmail rival.
Yahoo acquired it and it became Yahoo mail.
So 27 or 28 years
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I suppose it's Yahoo for me too. I thought it was a few years older than that, but it can't be, as it was launched in '97, indeed.
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Same, came here to say yahoo mail
beardyw
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Me too. I now use it for "I don't care" accounts so it is literally full of spam.
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Yahoo acquired it and it became Yahoo mail.
So 27 or 28 years