Spyke
lemm.ee

I'm 41. My screen name is my AOL screen name from 1996...

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lemm.ee

So many hours at that screen. I actually used to be really good.. ranked I think #12 overall. Beat the #1 dude Grrrr… or whatever that French guy’s battle tag was

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Nazreply
sh.itjust.works

Hell yeah dude! What a small world.

I used to be called DarkLegacy back on SC B.Net, I made a map called Chaos War with StarEditPlus - UMS -- the basis of the MoBA genre (the core gameplay loop of attack move trigger spawning units was later copied into countless maps, including Hero Arena, and subsequently, Defense of the Ancients!)

O/

Make it so.

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lemm.ee

I have no doubt I would have played that. Loved the custom map scene and have been addicted to TDs since then. Sounds like you made a much bigger contribution than I did lol.

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Without the players, there is no game, everyone's got a part to play ;))

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chiliedoggreply
lemmy.world

Anybody reading this thinking "me too:"

It's time to ask your doctor about scheduling a colonoscopy.

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Absolutely the same. I needed an account for Red Alert or something like that (Total Annihilation?) and it's still my gamer tag and screen name.

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feddit.de

You may get new and temporary E-Mails but never give up your first one.

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Hotmail, now there is a name I haven't heard in a while. we used to troll a handsome guy at work. After people left his desk he'd come over " Guys can you stop telling staff my e-mail is [email protected]"

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lemmy.world

Thousands of dollars in games hinging on support for an almost dead domain. Brave.

"We sent you a recovery email, good fucking luck."

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LemmyFeedreply
lemmy.world

My steam login is a Hotmail account but the email on file is my Gmail account. The Hotmail address is more like a username for steam.

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Oh that makes sense. I've always logged in with a username so I wasn't aware of that.

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The email itself has likely been updated, I too have a steam login username with an email included. Cool bit of legacy flair though

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Same, recently got my 20 year Steam badge. I can feel my body aging around me.

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lemmy.world

When I was graduating college 15 years ago, I wanted to create a professional firstname.lastname email. Outlook.com was starting to get traction and Hotmail was getting phased out, but I was advised to create my professional email under Hotmail.com because it would seem 'more professional'.

My main email is still the 007 related gmail I created first.

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lemm.ee

Oh, little Billy. One day you will become the xXPussyDestroyerXx!

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I’m almost 50 and have the same email address made up almost 30 years ago. It was so dark & edgy back then.

I’ve aged better than it has. Luckily I have a separate address for work.

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kbin.social

That would put you at about the mid-90s. Peak millennial/gen-x goth/grunge/nu metal era. Makes sense.

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My first email, almost 30 years ago too, was with an ISP that no longer exists.. My second email was on another domain that no longer exists. I do still have my Gmail account I got when it was invite only, but that one is just my name @ gmail (and you'd think it's cool to manage to grab that one, but I get emails for at least 6 other different people who think that's their address).

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Sydreply

Woah how?? What are most of them from?

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Good news — no pwnage found!

Interesting.
I made that email address when I was 8.
Though I've been always allergic to putting my main e-mail anywhere. Currently I have 14 active e-mail addresses due to that.

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AlexJDreply
feddit.uk

Honestly it's so nice. I ended up buying lastname.tld so now I will always have [email protected] even if I change provider because I can just point the domain to whatever provider I like.

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I envy all of you who have uncommon last names.

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LeLachsreply
lemmy.ml

unfortunately just firstname-lastname.tld for me but still a very elegant solution

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It's the one time where I am glad to have a slightly unusual name.

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Back in the day, I grabbed the three letter acronym dot com for my company. We weren't internet connected, just uucp but I knew that it wouldn't be available for ever and it seemed like this internet thing might take off.

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Mine is the default password for the first router I got when I moved out. It's just 8 random letters, but they're MY 8 random letters.

I change the password to it whenever we move supplier, along with the SSID, and all my IOT devices just jump back in

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lemm.ee

Kinda bummed no one here is representing EarthLink gang. One of my professors used that email and it was clearly made in like ‘92

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Not to be that guy, but ackshually EarthLink was founded in 1994 and, for all I know, may or may not have offered email yet at that point.

Also, AOL gang here, we can't be friends.

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Reminder that your google account has a name which is not just your email address. If you don't use google's other services besides gmail and youtube, you probably don't remember what it is. And you probably put in something stupid if not completely offensive. If you suddenly have to use google docs or something, people will see it.

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lemmy.ca

I have a yahoo address with only five letters.

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I also have a Yahoo address. Yahoo is such a pain in the ass at this point, but what am I going to do, go back and change the email address on every single online account I've made since I was 11?

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Guys, this is just a bot. It wants you to share your email addresses so it can sign you up for spam newsletters...

/s

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You're about to get an onslaught of spam. Never post your email in plain text online.

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lemmy.today

Umm, have a classy username for your official e-mail, and use the teenage one for everything else.

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It was released 2003, but yeah. My 2004 account is still active, and I have an older Hotmail address

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I took my Hotmail to my Gmail, and I regret it every time it doesn't auto fill or asks me to log in.

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I lost my AOL email long ago, that was the first one I remember, but I have lost many more from the decades since. Still got Yahoo! though.

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i've since made a more professional e-mail, but everything remotely to do with personal stuff uses the adress i made when i was 10.

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Have you worked in a lifeless, joy sucking office job?? Cause that's what you look like after the first week

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lemmy.world

By the magic of paying an actual mail provider instead of using big corpo free ones you can have as many and as varied mail addresses as you want. And they all end in the same inbox. You can even get fancy and register domains and shit to breach into the world of ultimate cool mail addresses.

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I had two email addresses throughout all of highschool. The one I gave to adults if they asked, firstname-lastname@, and the one I used to sign into msn and give to all my friends... I forget the exact address but it was definitely along the lines of "hotpants-sexi.kitty.87@"

The former is still my primary email. The other one is sitting abandoned since I was 17 and smart enough to realise what a stupid idea it was, but I never deleted it and I can't even remember it.

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Dude you do not look well for a thirty year old. You a smoker?

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I‘d still use my gmx address from 2003 if it wasn’t for me opting in the free premium trial (I provided no information) that did not have an opt out option and then they banned my account…

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sagreply

Well, I have 7 Email-ID. I don't know why.

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