Ask Lemmy

My GaiaOnline account, created in May 2007, still stands. I can't log into it anymore, but its presence still lingers on the site.

Everything else I've known prior to that, is now lost to time.

My email address is 26 years old.

The wayback machine has a snapshot of my personal Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds fan site from October 2002. Digging around a bit, the site and its forum must have been online since at least August of the same year. (Edit: if you dig around long enough you'll probably find forum accounts from 2001 or even older but those old phpBB forums usually only have a fraction of their threads preserved).

The oldest thing that's still in use is a forum account from September 2003. Last post with that account was two weeks ago. The community is not as active as it used to be but we still do in-person meetups at least twice a year.

I've been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.

I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors .. assuming that they are still in existence.

My livejournal account, my email, and my website are all of an age, though the website is oldest. But my submissions on Z2 are my oldest artifacts on an active website.

I'll probably still have some accounts on obscure forums I can't remember. But something I still use fairly regularly is my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, he's almost old enough to drink and drive (not at the same time).

I still maintain a Gmail account from their beta test days. I had to get an invite. 2003 or 4ish? Don't use it for much anymore, but I still have it.

My wizard 101 account probably

Just to add some perspective and context to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names

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.

Hotmail from 1998.

I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.

Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.

I have an email address and other accounts from the '90s that still exist.

I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.

I think the oldest account I can still get into is on 3wheelerworld.com. I still get my birthday email from them every year.

Does Angelfire keep websites up after 30 years of no activity?

My 24 year old DeviantArt account, probably. Don't know what I had before that. Oh, and my steam account turns 22 this year, I think.

The oldest one I still use regularly is probably my Steam account which is 17 years old (as of today actually).

There's a Pokemon fan forum that I originally joined around 2004 I believe. They've had a relaunch since then, so my current account is "only" from 2009 though. I'm still ocassionally active on there, along with like 5 other users.

My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.

My somethingawful account is early 2000's. I can still get into my gamefaqs account too which iirc is late 90s.

I have a 26 year old Whirlpool (an Australian broadband forum) account. It was made in 2000.

If you count Usenet, that goes back 30 years to 1996. It's not technically the web, but the archives can be found on the web

Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad's office before we even got internet at home

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.