When did you first have an e-mail account?
 

I would say, my first e-mail account was my university's e-mail in 94.

Mine was my hotmail account, which I still have. I opened it when I was in high school.

1988
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A work email address through my internship in 95.

1998

1995 when I was in high school

I got my first Pine Mail account in 1992.

i think it was 97 probably...maybe 96...but more so 97. i still have that one too...even though now that hotmail has added more room it seems to have added more junk to pass by the junk folder and go to the inbox.

Christmas 1992 was beginning of email and BBS usage for me.

In 1994 one of my teachers came over to watch me play role-playing games over the internet in a chatroom.

Remember the good old days when AOL barely had any graphics on it at all? Back before 3.0...

I got hooked on BBS crap in 1994, I think. That was when I first got my PC at home. Hi, Windows 95 haha.

In 1995 I got my first real email account through AOL. I think it was AOL version 2.0 -- wayyyyy back when. I didn't really use email then, though, because I didn't know too many people who had email addresses. It wasn't till my freshman year of college (97-98) that email blew up for me.

aol in 1992

My first email account was the one my alma mater gave me when I started college in 1993.

Since then I've gone through about 12 different email addresses, 5 of which are currently active.

High school account. It was '95 or '96.

I got my first one when I was in fifth grade, which was... I guess 1992. I've had my AOL account (and screenname) since I was in 8th grade.

My first account was my hotmail account that I still use. I got it in December 1996.

I now have 6 email accounts;

1) Original one - friends and family use
2) Junk Mail - for when you have to register for somethign online
3) Main one - used for fraterntiy stuff and for people that I have met since 2001
4) old bootycall addy- check liek once a month
5) new bootycall addy - check daily
6) Professional - only use for work related stuff

My first was CompuServe, December 26th, 1993. I was on maternity leave waiting for my daughter to be born and my (now ex) husband said "Why don't you check out this internet thing?". We had DOS 6.22 and a 1200 baud modem. CServe, at that time, cost $9.60 an hour and it was a "toll call" from our house, so after I got those first bills, I had to cut down a lot!

Now I have:
1) personal email addy for friends/ family/ bills
2) work email addy JUST FOR WORK
3) sorority email addy, for official fraternity business stuff
4) yahoo account, mainly for junk, posting on usenet, and a couple yahoo groups

And what I used to pay for one hour (cserve + phone), I pay for a whole month of cable internet. Go figure!

Dee

1998, 8th grade, email name: Vvioletsun

My IU email account in 1991.

College issued account in 1997 was my first, then I opened a yahoo account in 1999. I now have 6 different accounts...all for different purposes.

Compuserve, way back in 1992. Suckin' gas and haulin' ass on a 9600 baud modem! DOS 6.2, no Windoze for a long time (until I finally got Windoze for Workgroups 3.11).

1990, through a BBS.

I think it was 1992 at work...at that time tho, could only email within the company.

First AOL acct was 1994.

First email account was my senior year of high school (so the end of 1997, beginning 1998) - wpbulls was the "screenname" for that one :)

Now I have 5 email accounts:
2 Yahoo (but one that I rarely check!)
1 Hotmail
1 Cox
1 Graduate school

I really should set up a separate account for sorority related stuff, but I'd probably forget to check it as often as my "regular" account ;)

My first email was in the very early 1990s through a local BBS. How I miss those days and that 2400 baud modem :D Also had early email accounts through America Online and Prodigy (anyone remember them?) Got a geocities email in the mid 1990s, and a yahoo email after that. Apparently the geocities email is still active and forwards to the yahoo account, since geocities merged with yahoo forever ago.

Currently:

- Real email through ISP
- Backup general family email through ISP
- Yahoo (check occasionally, junk/signup type account)
- Gmail (check daily/every other day, use for mailing lists and registering for stuff I actually want to read online)

Hotmail. I changed hotmail account when I went to college. Now I use gmail.

I used Prodigy back in the early 90's. I think I had my Prodigy account around 1991 or 1992.
I then got an email account through AT&T around 1995 or 1996.

My first AOL account was in 1997 which I no longer use.

From AOL, I moved onto my UCF email account and now to my Bellsouth email account.

Sorta a tie between Carleton Univiersity and the military - both gave me an account in Sept. '93

1995, on AOL for something silly like $35 a month! I still have an account that is very similarly named to that first screename, but I never use it anymore. I suppose when my parents stop using AOL, it'll go bye-bye.

Let's see, over the years I have had (not all at the same time):
1 school address
3 work addresses
1 job-search address
1 freelance address
1 address for my students
2 personal addresses
3 SAI-only addresses

Now I only have two - one work, one personal. Life is much simpler that way.

I was on prodigy back in the early days (I was in like 4th or 5th grade I think). It was my dad's account. Then we switched to compuserve and AOL went to the flat rate so we switched to that. We finally got rid of the AOL this past year so I currently just have 4 main e-mail addresses.

1 gmail (primary address)
1 school (just for school and panhellenic stuff)
1 yahoo (it's turned into the spam account)
1 dot mac (it came with my idisk...I have all my finances directed here so it's in the same place)

1996 - through work (which was at an post-secondary institution).

I got an AOL email in 95, and my UBC one in 96. I think I signed up for my hotmail account in 98 and now have a shaw account which I just got this year. (I no longer have my AOL email).

i think i was a freshman in high school. maybe i was a sophmore. either way it was one of the two years. i was using webtv. anyone remember that?

I got AOL in 1996 :D

hotmail when i was 11.. so... 1996

I remember getting AOL in about 7th grade. So that would be 1994 or 1993...yikes!

at Indiana University in 1985 or 86. Definitely by Feb 1986 (when daughter #2 was born).

An those old vaxes....silver, gold, bronze :)

my 1st email account was with Hotmail in late 97, still have it.

now i have yahoo, go, family one, work, school, and i think one with netscape but i have never used it.
:D

95 or 96...

I still use the e-mail I created then...

First email account was with my university back in '95, where I got addicted to the Alpha Phi Omega Listserv (APO-L). I also got my first taste of the Internet--y'all, the Internet is addictive as all get out.

When I started college back in 1993. :)