My active eBay account is from 1999.
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Team Internet Paintball from 1994. My member number was TIP#860. Still have the patch on an old set of cammos, if I didn't accidentally get rid of them during one of the many times I've moved over the years.
Been visiting http://outpost10f.com/ccc/ since 1999, and it's still online! It's an HTML based chat site with Star Wars and Star Trek themed rooms.
Still glorious.
There are posts on Usenet from the mid-to-late '90s under my real name that are probably still around. I don't go looking for them and hope they don't come looking for me. About 50% of them are an embarrassment.
There's a short story out there from the days when everyone subscribed to email newsletters.
Skyrama
My somethingawful account is early 2000's. I can still get into my gamefaqs account too which iirc is late 90s.
An account on Yahoo Mail from around 1997. Still logging in once in a while.
same, not sure when i started it though. might be more like 2006 for this particular account.
I feel partially responsible for a lot of culture, from certain emojis to certain styles of writing and roleplay, and for that I'm very sorry.
The 90's were a pioneering time on the internet and if you had even a little digital art skill and a good sense of humor, you could quickly create entire movements of proto-memes and humor systems.
being a clown on something awful was really good times
I have some guitar tabs I posted from the mid 90s I think
Online banking since 1999 same bank.
Probably my ModTheSims account from 2005.
Probably my last.fm account, was made in 2005. Everything else before that has died a death, either because I changed services like with gmail or because the service is no more, like with ICQ etc.
I recently started using IRC again but had a almost 2 decade long break between so I don't think that counts.
My deviant art account is still around, it's over 20 years old now. Idk, is xanga still around? Most sites I used are gone now.
I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this "buying shit on the internet" thing wasn't going to be a scam.
My wizard 101 account probably
@dhruv3006 the first time I regisfered this nickname was on PTNet (irc), I still go there time to time to keep it alive, it has over 20 years now
I made my Roblox account in 2008, I have older accounts but that's probably the one I could most reliably access.
an account from July of 2001 in what then used to be a counter-strike forum.
it still exists and has an active user base but luckily has been taken to private mode.
i don’t think even 5% of the active users still play CS.
I have an email address and other accounts from the '90s that still exist.
I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.
My YouTube account is coming up on 20. Probably that seeing as MySpace was wiped.
My original Angelfire website is still around from 1999.