[indianhippie]

Definitely! A while back Yahoo! purged a ton of addresses and allowed individuals to signup with them to get unique/clean email handles.

I was able to grab [e-mail]. The address looks neat.

Since I’ve had that address, I’ve received password reset emails, bank documents, airline tickets and what not.

Massive security hole is an understatement.

[Fifer82]

The old yahoo chat days were my favourite internet days.

I used to have a great friendship with people in "Hackers Lounge: 1" and everyone used to be 1337 for cracking original names like you said.

I got my first name, and a few friends and I had illegals like \\//\\//estside and H a C K e R and .oO(d00t) which weren't compatible with the email service.

It's a pity that a generation later, the internet meant facebook and not the kind of inquisitive fun I experienced! (maybe I should have played more sport lol).