My very first address was a BITNET address. This is pre-Internet: see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET</a> and my address, which I don't recall, was specified with a "bang" address: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path</a>.<p>I would have gotten this around 1986 while at the College of Wooster. Honestly, I don't think I used that address very often for e-mail. At least, I don't recall using it much, although the details are a little hazy in my memory now. I don't have an archive of anything I sent and received back then. My earliest archived e-mail messages start around the fall of 1990, when I got an account on the University of Michigan's mainframe, and I think that account used the modern scheme for Internet e-mail addresses.
Hmm, I've only had two email addy's over the last 30+ years, pretty sure the first one was 1986 or '87 when I opened an account at portal.net, in Cupertino, not too many private isp's back then.<p>I got it to keep up with my fellow caver friends and join the cavers mailing list, a private list for NSS members who were actively exploring caves all over the world.<p>For my "computer", I couldn't see spending 3 to 4 k on a laptop, so I dropped $350 on a Brother Power Note and an rs232 modem, together they did everything I needed and wowed all my friends when I printed out a cave plot in the middle of the Mojave Desert on my tiny battery powered B&W printer.<p>I used my first Password in 1977 at work (private telco interconnect in silicon valley), it was DEVO, yes, I was referred to as the company's resident punk rocker service technician.
Hotmail. I was about 8 years old I think. My mom wouldn't let me use my real name, so it was (partial real name) + elvis@hotmail.com<p>Later on I made games and my dad said the name looked trollish. So I switched my main email to (real name)@gmail.com
My first wasn't accessible from public Internet (defense contractor).<p>My second started in 1986, well before we had domain addressing, so a sender had to know 1) our corporate hostname, 2) my username, and 3) a well-known host to route through (like uunet, pyramid, decwrl, etc.)<p>The convention for publishing my address, therefore, was<p><pre><code> {pyramid|uunet|decwrl}!infmx!aland
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I was actually the first person in the company to put my email address on my business cards! I still have some from then.
Hrrm... I think maybe it was my email when I was at UNC-W back in the 90's. I don't remember what it was now though. Maybe something like prhodes@sol.cms.uncwil.edu or something like that.<p>My first personal email though, was mindcrime@nccoast.net. This would have been about 1996 or 1997 or so.<p>Some things never change, huh?
2003, I was about 10 years old, I didn't speak any English and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever to have my own e-mail address so I somehow registered for a Yahoo account. I still have it.
1996, dad set up firstname@ email addresses for us on his new mail server. By 1999 I had to move to a new one (not firstname@ this time, but a unique name) due to spam.
mr-hankey@provider.com<p>mr hankey as the title of some southpark episode.<p>Didn't want to give out my real name back then. Won't give my name to any mail provider today.<p>pseudonyms forever :|