• @[email protected]
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    629 months ago

    I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you’re old too.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      I got an invite to Gmail when I was in university. Sadly I was at inbox zero for quite some time so I don’t have the Welcome to Gmail email anymore. It’s more than likely my oldest active account. I do have a Neowin account that still works from 2002 but I don’t frequent anymore. Macrumors is my most active old forum account, that’s from 2005. I had an ancient AIM and ICQ account but there’s no way I could remember the account details.

    • sag
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      39 months ago

      TIL G-Mail was invite only back then. I am too GenZ to undersand this shit.

      • SanguinePar
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        19 months ago

        A pattern they repeated with Google Wave and Google+, neither of which took off, partly because there weren’t enough people using them.

        I genuinely thought G+ could have been a FB killer, if they hadn’t made it hard to join.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      Mine was from a chain of random people posting their invite links on Slashdot. It feels like ancient history now.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        I still have a Slashdot account from 2009. Haven’t been on there much in years though. Google would probably be my oldest actively used account as I still use the one I set up with the initital invite.