You can forward emails from another address for your resume, and I don’t think siriusxm cares
Me at age 6, picking my username (and therefore first email address), knowing that it needs to be unique so I can use it for all accounts online, and also have meaning behind it so I don’t look like an idiot when I’m an adult: 🐺🖥️🌐
(this name is 27 years old and counting)
I was 10 when the Internet because publicly accessible, and 13 when I made my first ever email address. I used my current username as my email handle, which was an abbreviated version of my name.
It took me like 10 seconds to come up with it. I had a cute girlfriend who was insisting I make a private email because I was sharing my mother’s email account and my girlfriend didn’t like my mother having access to our private conversations.
It’s been 29 years now and I’m still using this username. My original email is long gone, but the username lives on.
This one is from AOL. Circa 1993/1994
E: ah, you meant your username. Nice!
Yeah, that UI isn’t from Win 9x or anything I recognize. But my first account was with AOL as well, ha.
Nice. I cannot even remember my username from back then. Lost it sometime between military and college.
Damn were you a furry at 6 or did you turn into one so your username checks out?
I joined the fandom/made a sona at 11 years old, but the username (wreckedcarzz) isn’t furry-related (my display name, Midnight Wolf). I’m crazy about cars, and my father was, among other things, an accident reconstructionist. So growing up I got deeply interested in vehicle safety, crash tests, and the body protection and tech as it evolved. I got to attend an event with other reconstructionists and related professionals, and got to see an F-150 (I think) slam into a bollard at… 50mph? While myself and others were just like 100 feet away, maybe less than that. Discussing the mathematics behind it, talking about how a collision that someone might not think is that dangerous can make a vehicle a coffin, first responders tasks, etc.
So when I was brainstorming a username, I was wanting something that mentions cars, but is also unique and evokes the fun but danger of them. Wrecked, cars. But that’s boring and isn’t unique. But usually, two cars are involved in a collision… And they can get pretty mangled… wrecked carzz, with the zz representing the two crashed cars.
wreckedcarzz. And so it was decided.
My furry name was less interesting. I’m pretty bad at coming up with names, so it took me a couple weeks to decide on one. But I’m always up late, hate mornings. And my sona was a wolf (now the majority of my hybrid sona is still a wolf, but also tiger and fox sprinkled in). It’s not creative but it’s descriptive, and Midnight is an okay name, so Midnight Wolf. When I attended Midwest Furfest… 4 years ago? The lady who was helping me with my badge remarked that there were 3 or 4 other Midnight Wolfs in attendance that year. I’m not super old, but I’ve been in the fandom for 22 years now, so I was likely the oldest and longest Midnight Wolf in attendance.
First initial, last name, never fails. Except when you change your name. Then it fails.
I knew two D. Adcocks. Their email address must be fun.
I worked with a Barb Adcock! Her E-mail was indeed [firstinitial][lastname]@school, which must’ve been a hoot with students.
Surely, someone should’ve seen Barb and my acquaintances and give them
[first**name**][lastname]@server.comemail addresses.On a similar topic to your story, my mother worked at a high school when I was young, and in her second marriage her last name was Dick. Only took a couple weeks for her to go back to going by her maiden name at the school.
Double dadcocks.
Sadly my name is slightly common but I’ve had my Gmail account since it was invite only. I’m not a Google fan but there is my entire life in that email history…
I have extended family life never met use my Gmail (firstletterlastname) as theirs because they forget to add the numbers or whatever else they used to create theirs.
I have full name, no numbers. I think it’s from 2005 or 2006…
Same. To make things worse, my distant great grand cousin who I’ve never even talked to, is both illiterate and dyslexic.
I know because I get all his mails, including the one where he signed up for courses for dyslexia.
I told the school to call him instead. I guess they get that a lot.
Susan Hart disagrees.
Ok, so it also fails sometimes when your name is unfortunate. But other than those times that it fails, it never fails.
60% of the time it works every time 😉
So does Alan Buser.
I dont know why but this reminds me of the joke in arrested development where tobias wanted to be an analytical therapist and he made it into the portmanteau “analrapist” 😂
Anal bum cover
Mr. and Mrs. McGill,
Thank you for your time. While the vicious poisoning of your son was a horrific tragedy, I am sure that with the evidence we discussed, justice will be served and the perpetrators will be made to financially compensate your shattered family. If you need to contact me or any of the other lawyers at our firm regarding this important matter, you can reach me at s3XXXyS8ergurl69@aol.com.
Darn s8ers
He was a sater oy, she said, “See you ater, oy”
yoyokiddo2000@yahoo.com has entered the chat
A couple of years ago, I was applying for a work visa, and they needed my college transcripts. Despite matriculating in 19somethingsomethingoldold, my class was one of the first to use an online system that was able to be migrated into multiple subsequent generations of registrar systems, so they needed to have my school email ID, which I hadn’t thought about eleventymilliongetoffmylawn years, so THAT meant placing a call to campus IT, and providing enough personal information for them to look it up.
And that, my online friends, is when you are forced to viscerally confront that you were a deeply cringe knowitall who spent way too much time thinking your personality flaws were edgy superpowers and that knowing the name of a random reference in a Bertrand Russell book you barely understood proved how smart you were.
My mom made my first email on KOL(AOL for kids) and misspelled my name. To this day my gmail has that misspelling in it.
Mikie?
Milky
I am still using an abstraction of my first ever Geocities password in some older accounts that I haven’t scrambled yet. Password requirements were basically nil back last century, it’s important to remember.
I still remember my icq number and password. I just double checked to see if I took my bp meds this evening
Mine is the most original ever: 😐
[First Name][Last Name] at Gmail and Yahoo.
Got the yahoo when they first started offering them, and the Gmail when it was invite only.
Yahoo for 90% of my online correspondence. Gmail for mostly professional / work related stuff.
[First Name][Last Name]@gmail.com is original. And also probably valid.
I apologize for not being clear.
[First Name ][Last Name] meant if my name was John Smith, my email would be JohnSmith@gnail.com. Actually having it be like what you thought would be awesome though!
I mean, you are allowed more than one email address
You wouldn’t believe the amount of unprofessional email addresses I saw when I used to do hiring. It sounds like a meme but please think before using bigjuicy69@hotmail.com as your contact email!
Hey how did you get my email address??
The job application process, have you not been paying attention?
With the amount of times I hear employers selling the info… I think giving a throwaway email on the application is probably just a safety concern at this point. Not sure I would put that much stock in what the email name is.
A throwaway email is one thing, but if you can’t be assed to make a non-offensive, non-edgy, bland email address for a job application/resume, I’m not waisting my time interviewing you. It’s the same with typos, details matter for those 15 seconds your app crosses a desk.
That is a fair point, just making a bland email address is probably the right call. Though if a typo bother you that much, you may want to reread your post.
I had to apply to get an invite for gmail back in 03. Still got it. This tracks.
It really does track (you), which is why I’m abandoning my >20 y/o gmail address
We should all probably get proton
I prefer Tuta for very private stuff (medical etc). But I’m mainly using purelymail since it costs 5€ a year. It’s in the USA but still good enough.
It’s in the USA but still good enough.
That’s an oxymoron.
Oh I ended up with hundreds of invites! Takes me back
Weird that that’s a whole generation ago
Luckily I just picked my name and a zip number.
Two problems; zip number is kind of a personal info, and at that age I didn’t even know my zip number properly and made an error, which persists 20 years later.
Relevant username. I’ll catch you one day Mr. Redacted
And when he does you better say goodbye to your vegetables.
Fortunately my name and last name aren’t that common so I made an email like name.lastname@mail.com for adult stuff
Dad’s is but he was first.
You know an adult can just get a domain name and thus get a different email address. Like h4ds3x@yomamas.house
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It’s cheaper than what at least I thought before getting one, but yeah.
It’s a hundred bucks a year for the domain alone. When I registered my first one in about 2013 it was 10 bucks a year. I registered them for the lols, pointed retarded URLs at my friend’s servers and spammed it.
You can Proton Mail now for free I think? - I pay for some server space but it’s a fraction of the cost of hosting even the domain name.
It should be cheaper ten years plus later, not more expensive 😭
Depends on the domain I think but yeah I don’t understand why registrars can own them and I can’t.
