I logged into GameFAQs the other day, and noticed I'd created my account in 1999.
After some poking around my password manager, the only other account I could find still "in use" was an eBay account that I also created in 1999.
I felt a small sense of wonder at having still-functional accounts that are 25 years old.
What are your oldest accounts? What do they still do for you?
My favorite account I used to have was username@ibm.net, back when they dabbled in consumer ISPs (unlimited dialup!). Sadly, they discontinued that service after a while.
I used to have really old Steam, Amazon, Slashdot, Facebook, and reddit accounts too, but deleted them all for various reasons.
Which forum?
https://boards.straightdope.com/ is the forum... it's not tech-focused, but it has a bunch of smart, passionate people discussing everything from airplanes to history to pop culture to video games and more. Usually pretty high quality discussions, although admittedly I've been a lot less active there than I used to be.
My college email addresses were created three decades ago and are active today. I could switch back to using one as my primary email address everywhere, and do use it in some places, but the pobox address became the primary one after graduation, before the college address was reenabled.
My Amazon account was also created in the mid-1990s. I applaud the company for making complete purchase histories still available.
I am not sure when my `yahoo.com` account was created but it was in the late 1990s. I have never ever used the address anywhere. It gets lots of spam.
My eBay account was created in the late 1990s. Active the whole time.
I have a low single-digit Slashdot account.
I also have a valid ICQ account from the 1990s, I think, but never used it.
Mine has been around since October of 1996. It, too, gets lots of spam.
> I have a low single-digit Slashdot account.
A friend of mine has slashdot uid of 6. He must have known the original crew.
It is a bit funny since the "Dyn (company)" Wikipedia page[1] says the company was founded in 2001, but I'm pretty sure I had this account already when years started with 19.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company)
EDIT: Not an online account, but I only had a single mobile phone number my entire life.
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(Unless I’m pointing out the obvious unsaid joke)
Other than that, probably my Gmail account from the beta days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
http://lostunicorn.org/
The other one that people seem to be impressed with is my Netflix account is from 2003. I was ordering DVDs in college and it blew people's minds that I was renting DVDs through the mail at that time. I tried to buy their stock back when they tried splitting the company into two entities. I think the stock was like $5 at the time. Unfortunately it was a lot harder to buy stock back then.
[1] https://gally.net
Think of all the database upgrades over the years to move that data forward...
When Amazon got really big and dabbled in the ad business I deleted it, so I don't have it anymore. Only created a new one when the pandemic hit.