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'98. I saw an ad for www.LEGO.com on the fairly new World Wide Web in the Lego Mania Magazine and waited what seemed like days for my older brother to summon it through the dial up modem on his PC. Going on the Internet was like a momentous excursion.

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Some stuff from 2003. My tibia account is still there, I think gaia online as well?
One of my old e-mails should be from like 2001, but hotmail used to delete them for inactivity. Pretty sure last I checked I re-registered it in 2005.
 
Sometime before the Wing Commander IV demo was made available online.

Game came out in 1996 so I guess that would make me... old.
 
Bulbagarden forums back in '09 I think?

There was some lego home page thing that I have an even older account on. I went by kyk92 or something. I don't really care enough to dig back to find it, but it predates bulbagarden by a few years.

Edit: I think I have an ign account older than bulbagarden.
 
As far as I can still remember? 2006, I had an account on TV.com and posted dumb threads on the boards for shows I liked.

I mean, I probably had Neopets and stuff like that before, but that's as far as I can remember and still find (seriously how do I still remember my old username and password to that site, I probably haven't visited since 2007, maybe 2008)
 
Ohhhhh Web presence. I suck.

The Bionicle official forums and then BZPower.com

Would've been 3rd grade or something. 2001
 
2 different blogs me and my friends made are still up.

I wanna nuke my old Myspace page.

OH GOD MY DEVIANTART PAGE STILL EXISTS. OH GOD.
 
1994 is when we got AOL and I came up with my old username. But I don't have any saved documents from then because back in those days we would change computers all the time and backups weren't a thing in most households due to the cost and inconvenience. The last time I lost anything was 2001 when I got my first external HDD. So I guess that was as far as I can go. Unless I actually load up AOL, I don't think I'd even be able to though.

Back in 2000 I was big on the MacAddict forums, but they closed those down a few years ago so any evidence would be gone. Around that time I also created my eBay account so that would be as far as I can go.
 
The crappy little wallpaper site I made in 2000 is still up, somehow, on a local ISP's servers.

It's not as bad as I would have expected, but still bad enough that I don't want to share a link to it. :D
 
Neopets 2003~. I can probably still log in, assuming that they haven't cleared the data base or something, but i'd rather not.
 
I can find poems and short stories from 2005. They're even more horrible than my writing in 2016.
I also still can access my first Mail Account from 2003. (but I really don't wanna. It was already a spam dumb when I last saw it)
 
My neopets account. I think like 2002
I don't know the password and the related email is lost unfortunately
 
I think around 2003 I played mostly web games on Disney and Nick's sites, and I most definitely had an account on Nick. My first Neopets account was made around then too. Oh, and my first Runescape account. That still exists.
 
I wish I could remember my really old usernames. The farthest back I can find myself is on an archive of a forum from 2008.
 
True Savior said:
Irc in 98

My first internet usage was to find and print cool dragon ball images though.
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Same, would go to the library and pay 10 cents to print out some cool DBZ stuff. Like "oh cool a blonde goku" even though he hadn't transformed yet in the us release.

I'm glad I never really posted stuff before coming of age lol
 
Looks likeep 2003 for my current username. Before that I was around and had a few websites and part of some webrings (ha!) and various communities, but I can't seem to find them anywhere. So 2003. I was 15.
 
it would be yahoo chat stuff from the 90's, which i'm assuming can't be seen anymore .. that said, if somehow all of that shit was saved somewhere, i would go back and read it for days.
 
Thankfully if you search my current username on google all you get is my Gaf posts (strangely, all from the "No Fat Drake in UC4" thread). I've tried to distance myself from my old username and accounts.

*shudders*
 
I can't remember what username I went by pre-2009. But I would have left a lot of cringey comments on IGN and Gametrailers. I even made a few videos on Youtube that I struggle to find.
 
i wonder if there are BBS FidoNet archives....

pretty sure there's no archive of the Amiga BBS's i used to visit though. i guess slashdot would be oldest discussion thing i could find easily. or Fark.
 
I think the oldest thing I can find is my ebay account which goes back to Nov 2001.

All the forums I posted on that far back either don't exist anymore or changed forum software since so I can't actually see what I was posting back then.

I do remember my ICQ number: 114833269 does that count?

Edit: Holy shit record of it still exists. That is my birthday.
 
The farthest back for me is a handful of YouTube videos I made back in 2007 with Windows Movie Maker, under a different username and account (before I changed to this one).

...today I learned I have at least one video with 95,000 hits.
 
The earliest I can remember my old username is my old Gaia Online account that I made in 2004.

I had an AIM account in middle school and used it, but I don't remember the name.
 
Searched for one of my old e-mail addresses and found a MyAnimeList account where I apparently watched The Castle of Cagliostro (still the GOAT), some of Azumanga Daioh (uh... OK), and 3 episodes of Wedding Peach (yeah... just... yeah).
 
my hotmail account is probably the oldest thing i have that i still use. i created it in 2000.

i don't think there's anything older that is still around.
 
krae_man said:
I think the oldest thing I can find is my ebay account which goes back to Nov 2001.

All the forums I posted on that far back either don't exist anymore or changed forum software since so I can't actually see what I was posting back then.

I do remember my ICQ number: 114833269 does that count?

Edit: Holy shit record of it still exists. That is my birthday.
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Remember when people used to brag about low ICQ numbers?
 
NoblesseOblige said:
Also to around 2004. I post in some FFXI forums back then. Nothing to make me shudder, mostly advice for equipment scripts. Also I've never done any social media or post in any social boards before NeoGAF really. I was lucky enough to be born far enough before the Internet penetrated the home market as to not be a total embarrassment to my future self.
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2004 FFXI forum's for me as well. Can't think of anywhere else I would have posted something. My earlier years on the internet consisted of searching DBZ images on google and yahoo to print out and post on my bedroom wall. RIP my parents printer ink.
 
Found an archived newsgroup post of mine from January 1994. There should be stuff earlier than that but that's the best I've found so far.
 
Do flyers I made in the mid-90s archived count? Pretty sure I have some old chats and comments from the mid 90s archived on the web too.

Nipo said:
Searching my old aim name I found things from 1995. I was a jerk.
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Yo.. How do you search for old AIM transcripts???
 
January 2005 on LANeros.com (a Colombian Tech Forum, still active)... before that, it's imposible to search something relevant attached to my previous nicks (elgordo_4 (1998) and diegodd1 (2002)).
 
i was looking through some old emails from my aol account, i found one saying that my scifi.com chatroom user account was shut down becuase of threats towards the government. This was in the mid to late 90s. i was no older than 14.
 
Probably mid 1995 or 96. Definitely probably a couple of newsgroup posts by me out there somewhere.

My oldest active working registration is from 1999.

I remember it being a big deal when I won a contest that got me a whole 4 extra megabytes for my members.aol.com website.

and trying to convince my dad to get me a subscription to tripod.com for christmas so I could build a site on that


and everyone migrating sites between Bravenet, xoom.com , VirtualAve, tripod, geocities. Xoom was the first site that did the "unlimited* hosting" which attracted a lot of users. Then there was the years where everyone and their mom had an EZBoard. And everyone mostly got video game music via http://www.vgmusic.com/
 
I went as Conkersbadfurday on the old NSider forums back when I was a freshman in high school. Actually, it may have been in seventh or eighth grade. Website no longer exists though, so I cant go back and cringe myself to death.
 
Since joystiq seems to no longer exist, in the sense that their old articles are also gone, i actually can only trace back to Gamefaqs Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn board in late 2007.
 
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