Kid taking my gmail address: how did they allow you to have a troll name for email address?

I was there when gmail was invented.

Same here, I signed up immediately. Also had a google phone # for a while, but never used it and I don't think it even works anymore. I think they only created those to gather test data for voice recognition.

i regret having gmail

It felt great signing up for loops.Video when it got announced and getting firstname@loops.video

I had to be invited.

In a galaxy far away 🎶

And I can still remember how...

I currently have my full name on GMail and Proton, but I actually had my first name on GMail when it first launched. As in, if my name was Brian (it isn't (it might be (it isn't))) I had brian@gmail.com. Sold it for £1000.

I changed my name.. I added numbers to my new email address :(

as cool as it is to have a gmail account from back then, I have an older lady in the US who just registers things against it, because we have the same first initial and last name. I found her on facebook and messaged her to tell to please stop using my email address, she still does it from time to time.

Its crazy that stuff like ebay will let you verify an account with a mobile number, but never verify the email address. I ended up moving her ebay account to an email address that I created, but I was tempted to buy a bunch of shit for her...

Same thing happened with my nephew over the 4th.

I have this and the other people with my name give it as their own email address all the time, apparently not understanding that you don’t get the address just for existing.