[yardie]

Still have my college email address. But none of the clients can login until I physically go in and reset the password at helpdesk, 4HELP.

I actively use the eBay account I created in 1998.

And my Slashdot burner account has become my main account because my primary account is tied to my old ISP email address. Learned to never do that again.

[compsciphd]

> And my Slashdot burner account has become my main account because my primary account is tied to my old ISP email address. Learned to never do that again.

4 digit account #s forever :) (in practice, hadn't logged in for forever till now).

[saltcured]

If we count email, I still use an address from my employer that was established on my first day in 1997. I lost my college accounts around then, though a student group one lasted longer than official ones. Since email was also used with USENET, I didn't have any other online, public-at-large accounts until instant messaging invaded work a few years later. So I think I had AOL (AIM) and Microsoft (MSN) first, but haven't kept them active.

Close in there would be online commerce. I don't have detailed records, but probably started using Dell and Amazon quite early in the original dot-com era. Probably also B&H Photo Video and Crutchfield, since these were businesses I already knew from the mail-based catalog era.

I think I also had an online account with my bank by around the same time I started my job, though it took me a couple more years to wean myself off writing paper checks and primarily using bill pay.