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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm lucky enough to have an outlook account with a much more professional address than any of my other email addresses, not including than my secondary protonmail account. But I'm definitely gonna have to close that outlook account due to security reasons and get a new one (for professional stuff since I doubt anyone would accept anything other than gmail or outlook where I live).

Ain't now way anyone is gonna say my gmail account (just used for yt because I like commenting on certain videos) saying I'm a fan of a long since dead yt channel is very professional. My outlook account at least was/is more professional as it is nothing but a few letters that don't spell anything.

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 9 points 22 hours ago

Very me irl. Almost the same ages. I'm looking to change it to one that uses my own domain name though, so I can switch email providers in the future. The convenience of Gmail was always too much to overcome, but the US is no longer to be trusted and I'd rather use something European and cut any ties to the US. Before the orange man pulls some stunt that either results in all my mail being inaccessible or all my mail being shared with the world wide web.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

PSA: Web hosting with email can be cheaper for many inboxes than an email service is for just one email. You don't even have to use the web hosting part of it.

Proton wanted 6 or 7 euros per inbox. Hetzner web host with 100 inboxes was under 2 euros. I don't even use the hosting part of it.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

This hits close to home. Bought a domain as a teen and still have universal forwarding setup for email so I have this wacky domain but I love being able to instantly create a working email address with it and it still holds my primary email account. If suzy's flower shop needs an email address for me to get 10% off if I sign up for a mailing list, I tell them my email is suzysflowers@myjuveniledomain.com

And they think I'm full of shit until it works.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

“Get with Josh about how to handle this client’s order logistically. Is your email still sexysandworm2010?”

“Y-yeah.”

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

“Come now, I haven’t used that in decades. I’m throatgoat69 now.”

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 day ago

I'm old enough that my Gmail (and my Hotmail) are just first name and last name.

[-] MushroomsEverywhere@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Same, got my Gmail when I was 13 through a referral when it was brand new.

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago
[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Hotmail 👎 Juno email 👍

[-] aeternum 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I HAD been on gmail since it was invitation only, but I deleted that shit when they went to the dark side.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

I also still have my really old one but I got a couple others, one of which is the current "official" one, the old one is way too compromised lmao. But it looks normal, not a crazy gamer tag or whatever.

But I don't have my very first one anymore, that was a "caramail" one I can't even remember what it was but it must've surely been extremely cringe.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 day ago

I still sometimes think about my first email address, and how it had a four letter password. Just signed up at Yahoo, it wasn't anything special.

[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

456,976 possibilities. Which crazy machine could find that cool password. I had similar stuff back then 😝

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 16 hours ago

A lot fewer possibilities than that! No special characters, all lower case, it was a word in the dictionary.

Those were different times.

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Cause you had the greatest internet security you could ever ask for: unmonetizability.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Haha..ha.. ha

(Me, over 40 in the same sitch)

[-] leraje 5 points 1 day ago
[-] lengau@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago

Joke's on you, the username I made when I was 13 is now my username at work!

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Was it your first initial and last name followed by birth year?

[-] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 23 hours ago
[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

My email was fartface3000 for a very long time. It was only embarrassing always.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I still use my Gmail account and proud to say that I will use it forever. Even though Google have gone to the dark side, I will keep my Gmail mainly because my email address was created way back before they forbid anyone having a strange sounding email address. My email address is a relic from the olden fun days.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I had no idea they forbid email addresses.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 1 day ago

Mine had 2000 inside for extra coolness.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I remember I applied to my first 2 jobs using my goofy yahoo email address. By my third job I had a more professional one.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I surprised you landed a job with it.

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I still use my first email (Hotmail) circa ~1997 as a sort of catch all. I have several others for various professional purposes.

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