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Joined gdgt.. Netbooks and UMPCs needs to have own category.. And their servers need more power too as it seems to be down..
Rodfather liked this
Ya it's getting hammered
- Rodfather
got a brb message now :)
- Simon Wicks
I'm here: http://user.gdgt.com/Rodfath...
- Rodfather
They managed all that Apple event traffic, and crashed and burned during their own launch :)
- Simon Wicks
They should've bought a vowel while they were at it.
- Nick Smith
yep, hope it works soon.. I want to test it more than just register..
- jkkmobile
gdgt now: "We're upgrading things at the moment, but we'll be back in a fix! "
- jkkmobile
heh: Thanks so much for stopping by! We're seeing a somewhat insane amount of traffic right now, but we're working on getting online as soon as we possibly can. Thanks for your patience!
- jkkmobile
Who was your first email account with? Moi. Hotmail...God, that was/is awful.
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karoo for me.
- alphaxion
WebTV.
- Rochelle
sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time.
- Tsali - el Rey de Reyes
Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail.
- Brad @ The Next Web
AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it.
- Tyler Hayes
First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout!
- Jared Smith
wisc.edu
- Dave Winer
ecu.edu
- Beebo Wallace
Prodigy.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
citiz.net
- yagami
i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol
- Cardeen winedrunk
crikey, i've never even heard of some of these...
- Zee.
A BBS in Morgan Hill.
- Rodfather
1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984.
- Don Strickland
A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
wow, very impressive Jason...and Don!
- Zee.
Hotmail was my first email provider.
- Andrew Trinh
mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today.
- Vlad Bobleanta
I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later...
- Rahsheen the Dream
Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now!
- Rick Cogley
Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier)
- Brandon Mendelson
AOL.
- LB is blatant
PSU.edu, 1989
- Dave Roth
Toronto FreeNet.
- Chris Charabaruk
Michigan State University
- Steve Lowe
Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore.
- TkFromWestSide
My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
Hotmail
- Tim Keneipp
Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy.
- Adam Turetzky
Prodigy, then AOL
- Robert Kenney
My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-)
- Alleluiabug Heather
AOL
- Derrick
<- AOL
- Costa Walcott
AOL then Juno
- Violet Mae Lim
drexel.edu and compuserve
- Peter Ghosh
Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992.
- dthree
Pixi.net
- Trish Haley
I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC.
- Matthew
75106,3139
- Leo Laporte
I want to say Compuserve
- Basenet InterMedia
whats 75106,3139?
- Zee.
aol
- Computerwhiz1
Those are Compuserve addresses Zee
- Adam Turetzky
AOL
- Gabe Diaz
Prodigy
- Nick Smith
Oof. CompuServe!
- Akiva
ah, interesting - thanks Adam
- Zee.
My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu.
- Akiva
Yay Nation Hahn!
- Rochelle
76020,702 lol, had to look mine up!
- Adam Turetzky
I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally.
- Bruce Lewis
netcom
- Scott Slade
A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary.
- Bob M. Montgomery
Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago..
- David van Sunder
from Nambu
Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-)
- Dan Dashnaw
I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again.
- Diego Espinoza V.
columbia.edu
- Morton Fox
geez... I can't even remember.
- Jim the Blatant
umich.edu
- Ken Sheppardson
Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.)
- Louis Gray
Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998.
- David Yarnell
AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts.
- Jandy
Prodigy.
- Anika
crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
Probably Mindspring.
- Gunnybear ™
Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem.
- Allen Blair
<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail.
- Tom Horn
Compuserve was my first Internet email address.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
from fftogo
email.com
- Alex Scrivener
Hotmail I'm ashamed to say.
- Daniel Drysdale
from Nambu
web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Hotmail as well :(
- Drew Lucas
Genie
- Randy Caldwell
yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno!
- BEX
My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box.
- Hiro Asari
ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol
- Sharon McPherson
Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address
- Sean Reiser
A local ISP called Jetlink.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
Alta Vista
- Brent - Yes I am
My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house.
- Dustin Sallings
Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that?
- David Damore
Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89)
- iTad
rocketmail.com
- James Beake
AOL
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
stanford.edu
- Paola Bonomo
aol
- David Dudley
Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now.
- Ahsan Ali
my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail
- Monique
Hotmail.
- Steven Perez
University in '94. didn't know what email was before that.
- mikepk
Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet)
- Tudor Bosman
Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times.
- zephyrlily
deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/
- coffee
AOL of course
- Keith - @tsudo
Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything!
- Bryce Campbell
yep hotmail
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
usa.net
- pb:
The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr.
- Martin Bryant
Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :)
- Mark Krynsky
usa.net (netaddres)
- Toni @ NavinoT
On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net
- Kol Tregaskes
Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server.
- Ward Seward
Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular
- Gee Ranasinha
Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk
- Matt Hall
not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo
- (jeff)isageek
AOL.
- tehKenny
yahoo
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
umich.edu
- DGentry
cmich.edu
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first.
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr).
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face*
- Iain Baker
Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think.
- FFing Enigma
I think it was yahoo or usa.net
- Shamir Ramjan
worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider)
- Olivier
CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993
- Michael McKean
Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/
- Ben LaMothe
Compuserve, then Demon and well.com
- Fraser Smith
It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone.
- Dušan Šimonovič
Local ISP and then Hotmail.
- Kevin Bondelli
OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now.
- Lynette Young
Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail.
- Ninh Nguyen
Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you.
- Eric Fisher
Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER!
- John Craft
yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now
- brainno722 (Peter)
Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104).
- George Brickner
BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number).
- George Brickner
Hotmail
- Damond Nollan
prodigy, if I remember correctly
- Chieze Okoye
yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now
- Richard Lawler
Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago.
- Tamar Weinberg
AOL
- Just Katie
Hotmail :(
- Mitra_s
uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :)
- felix
mine was hotmail too.
- Thom Allen
Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection.
- Matt Thompson
from fftogo
Juno
- Martha
TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net.
- Wirehead
UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP.
- Fred Yankowski
MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around.
- James Ferguson
I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno....
- EricaJoy
Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995
- Michael K Pate
My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993.
- Lisha Sterling
from twhirl
aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff.
- Daniel Morgan
cix UK
- John Francis
cs.berkeley.edu
- Piaw Na
I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail.
- Jeremy
AOL *facepalm*
- Mike Lewis
I think it was AOL or Compuserve
- Shevonne
My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom.
- Lorin Olsen
not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com
- Gökmen Karasu
The US government.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail"
- İrfan
MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
AOL - I HAD MAIL!
- Mona Nomura
Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net).
- Beau Liening
oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back)
- Jorge Escobar
uh.edu, then hotmail.
- Arlan K.
UUCP email on unix .. circa 86
- Peter Dawson
comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny.
- mike
starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL
- Mike Templeton
Mindspring.com
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
hawaii.edu
- Josh Haley
aol
- The Amber
Aol huuuh
- Marie Jubin
from Nambu
Admittedly - AOL.
- AJ Kohn
@tamu.edu
- Carlos M. Gomes
AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail
- Kevin Pruett
first email account was @andrew.cmu.edu & first webmail was with lycos!
- Maciej Matyjas
from fftogo
Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today.
- Jennifer Mitchell
execpc.com. haha.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Compuserve
- Bryan R. Adams
Penn State University
- Ernie Oporto
My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS.
- a runcible MiniMage
hotmail
- Dane Findley
angelfire
- Rachel Lea Fox
Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now.
- Michael Fidler
Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it.
- Rolf Schewe
Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky...
- John Blossom
AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not!
- Bonnie Foster
hotmail 1995
- MugeCerman
mail.com *shrug* XD
- Ac0n (former Franc)
AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail
- imabonehead
Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years.
- Michael Forian
My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
hotmail
- Bill Hice
@msstate.edu, my university in 1996?
- Phillip Stewart
Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL.
- John Johnson
not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail
- Iphigenie
Yahoo. God bless Gmail!
- Özgür Akman
"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them.
- Marg Uerite
it was either aol or nyonline
- Lynne d Johnson
AOL for me... horrible.
- Michelle
Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it...
- Rich
yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail
- Yant
Microsoft Fixes Multiple PowerPoint Vulnerabilities - http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article...
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No love for Office 2008 folks, though...
- Nick Smith
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