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[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.

  1. AA gets in a rocket and goes up to heaven to fight God in a katana battle. In the end they both get killed by Buddha.

  2. AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.

  3. Jesus's Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.

  4. AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.

[–] CharlesReed@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

I have a hotmail address that I still regularly use for silly stuff. The earliest email I can find under it is from March 2006.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 3 hours ago

My Yahoo email address is 27 years old.

[–] livingsimnpc@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Prolly my old clash of clans account that i lost access to and its base

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I’m no greybeard in comparison to the wizards here, but can still probably log into my webkinz account from 2008. I think they still have a legacy app anyhow lol

I’m sure you can find old forum posts of mine from when I was an internet baby but couldn’t log back in to those, if an account was even required back then lmao

[–] AverageEarthling@feddit.online 6 points 5 hours ago

the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

My Yahoo account is 25 years old I think. My first email address.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

My yahoo email address, created in the early 2000s. I receive a yearly reminder on my current email that it's about to be deactivated due to inactivity, so I log on to keep it alive. No reason really.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

I can still log into my Slashdot /. account, I think. That's from 1997-98?

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I would've said Elfwood, since I posted some cringey drawings there in the late 90's. Since Elfwood is closed, remnants of my presence still exist on TOR.N (theonering.net). It was a pre-movie Lord of the Rings fan website, which, amazingly, still has Barliman's chat room. I wonder if my Battle of Fanghorn Forest poem is still there somewhere 🤔

ETA: so in answer I'd say about 28 years old. If you'll excuse me, I need to drink some Ensure and clean my dentures

[–] mech@feddit.org 9 points 8 hours ago

My email address is 26 years old.

[–] ChromaticMan@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago

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).

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

I am not "present" in the www at all, but my oldest e-mail address that is still working is from 1996.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Probably my Kingdom of Loathing account, my emails from before then died

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

My somethingawful forum account is 24.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago
[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

My YouTube account is coming up on 20. Probably that seeing as MySpace was wiped.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m with you there. I still have my cringe edgy 1998 Hotmail login that has morphed into the credentials for all my Microslop dealings, I never use it for mail, but I have unfortunately had to give it to people professionally during some azure related training and onsite sales pitches.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For good or ill I still use it for mail, hell with 'em! I just don't want to go through the hassle of brainstorming all those who have it and then changing it where necessary.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Anything that had that email would’ve been from my teens to early 20’s since I ended up with a Gmail account in like the 3rd wave of beta invites. That was my grown up email, and so anything of value is there while the Hotmail only gets spam and ms updates. But can definitely appreciate sticking with 1 account, since I’ve not swapped emails since my early 20’s for the same reason you describe.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

My original Angelfire website is still around from 1999.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

I still have my AOL account from the mid-90s. It uses my oldest handle, a nickname from when I was a kid. I still use that email as a spam address, for when I have to provide an email address for some passing thing.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Ryoae@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] suzyq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.

[–] tangible@piefed.social 5 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 5 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] Tywele@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

My wizard 101 account probably

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 1 points 9 hours ago

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

I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.

[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

There's a short story out there from the days when everyone subscribed to email newsletters.