I graduated in 2000 and a buddy bought a domain to host a forum so our friend group could stay in touch before social media took off. We kinda fell off when MySpace, then FB got big, but now that we’ve all abandoned the latter it’s how we stay in touch.

several of my passwords 🥺

I have a URL that's 30 years old this year and it's still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.

(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)

Funny thing that, a personal homepage, I first created one 31 years ago, at a time when it was rather unusual to have one. I still have one, and now it has become rather unusual to have one once again.

I have a very lonely and hungry neopet somewhere...

I still maintain a Gmail account from their beta test days. I had to get an invite. 2003 or 4ish? Don't use it for much anymore, but I still have it.

I'll probably still have some accounts on obscure forums I can't remember. But something I still use fairly regularly is my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, he's almost old enough to drink and drive (not at the same time).

ICQ.

Wait, they’re gone‽

Uh-oh!!!!

My active eBay account is from 1999.

Email account from the year 2000. Which is TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO.

I have my Gmail account from early in its beta, probably in 2004. I became a Metafilter member I think in 2003. I got my everything2.com account in the late 90s I think, that might be the earliest I still remember.

Team Internet Paintball from 1994. My member number was TIP#860. Still have the patch on an old set of cammos, if I didn't accidentally get rid of them during one of the many times I've moved over the years.

https://www.warpig.com/paintball/net_resources/tip_faq.html

The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.

1. AA gets in a rocket and goes up to heaven to fight God in a katana battle. In the end they both get killed by Buddha.

2. AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.

3. Jesus's Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.

4. AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.

My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.

The wayback machine has a snapshot of my personal Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds fan site from October 2002. Digging around a bit, the site and its forum must have been online since at least August of the same year. (Edit: if you dig around long enough you'll probably find forum accounts from 2001 or even older but those old phpBB forums usually only have a fraction of their threads preserved).

The oldest thing that's still in use is a forum account from September 2003. Last post with that account was two weeks ago. The community is not as active as it used to be but we still do in-person meetups at least twice a year.

I have a hotmail address that I still regularly use for silly stuff. The earliest email I can find under it is from March 2006.

Online banking since 1999 same bank.

Been visiting http://outpost10f.com/ccc/ since 1999, and it's still online! It's an HTML based chat site with Star Wars and Star Trek themed rooms.

Still glorious.

An account on Yahoo Mail from around 1997. Still logging in once in a while.

I have a 26 year old Whirlpool (an Australian broadband forum) account. It was made in 2000.

If you count Usenet, that goes back 30 years to 1996. It's not technically the web, but the archives can be found on the web

I've been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.

I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors .. assuming that they are still in existence.

I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.

There are posts on Usenet from the mid-to-late '90s under my real name that are probably still around. I don't go looking for them and hope they don't come looking for me. About 50% of them are an embarrassment.

I’m no greybeard in comparison to the wizards here, but can still probably log into my webkinz account from 2008. I think they still have a legacy app anyhow lol

I’m sure you can find old forum posts of mine from when I was an internet baby but couldn’t log back in to those, if an account was even required back then lmao

...google's old dejanews archives don't go back as far as my usenet activity, but i doubt i had any old web content which predates where they pick up unless we include legacy media archives like newspaper or television; for that matter, i think a lot of old yearbooks are online now, too...

...anyway, if we're only counting web-first content, i didn't make my first website until like `94 and all my hosts before like 2005 are decades gone by now...

Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad's office before we even got internet at home

Just to add some perspective and context to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names

the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.

I have some guitar tabs I posted from the mid 90s I think

I think that website I made for the cern guy is still around.

Probably my ModTheSims account from 2005.

Probably my last.fm account, was made in 2005. Everything else before that has died a death, either because I changed services like with gmail or because the service is no more, like with ICQ etc.

I recently started using IRC again but had a almost 2 decade long break between so I don't think that counts.

My old Yahoo account had emails from 98 or so, I had some AOL content starting in about 94 and Prodigy before that. Before that everything i did was on multiple BBS's and don't think any are still going, the last one i looked at was back in 2008 or so and they still had the BBS archives up on a web page.

Probably my first account on newgrounds, must've made it back in 2003.

I lost the password to the email I registered with and with that any chances for password recovery of said account and a bunch of other stuff of my teenage years.

I still have a Game Faqs account.

Skyrama

@dhruv3006 the first time I regisfered this nickname was on PTNet (irc), I still go there time to time to keep it alive, it has over 20 years now

Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.

I would've said Elfwood, since I posted some cringey drawings there in the late 90's. Since Elfwood is closed, remnants of my presence still exist on TOR.N (theonering.net). It was a pre-movie Lord of the Rings fan website, which, amazingly, still has Barliman's chat room. I wonder if my Battle of Fanghorn Forest poem is still there somewhere 🤔

ETA: so in answer I'd say about 28 years old. If you'll excuse me, I need to drink some Ensure and clean my dentures