Clearly I, sir, am no Kevin Fox: 6,919; 6/24/04. - matt shobe
4/15/04, 41,024. But I have to admit I use gmail simply as a handy web backup... I've always preferred the Outlook interface (yes, this causes Bret much anguish :) - Shannon Jiménez
Ugh, Outlook. I would think it would cause Kevin, Paul, & Sanjeev more anguish. But hey, I use Apple Mail. You could switch to MapQuest, which I'm sure would make Bret happy. - Chris White
Is it fair to compare us commoners to people who created gmail? ;) 6/8/04, 12,700. - Dan Hsiao
Can I use my still-existing tudor@google.com email account instead? :) 320,640 conversations. - Tudor Bosman
6/19/04 (Mentioning # of messages is irrelevant... I deleted a ton of lists and search results recently) - Louis Gray
Gah, I don't have access to my original gmail account but this one I've been using since 5/25/06 apparently. Originally I managed to get into the beta pretty early on. Man.. wish I could remember the pass for that account now. - Adam Posey
6/14/04 - I delete a lot of stuff I don't need to archive though. - Beau Liening
4/23/04 - Gmail is different. Here's what you need to know. (# is inaccurate, through annual purging but currently @ 15,783 - tagami
26,204 4/4/04 - but that doesn't count the month or two as a tester before it came out. - Rachel L Fisher
6/16/04 and 25209 messages - had to bribe a friend with a T-Shirt to get the invite... - Frederic
06/08/04 and 42496 although I recently deleted like 20k in order to be able to get a fetch via pop working. of course bcon stuff etc, not really mail. - Nicole Simon
4/1/04 - Anything earlier had to be imported, Kevin :) - Paul Buchheit
importing is cheating! only true messages count. *g* - Nicole Simon
Paul's 4/1/04 is wonderful. ; ) I changed my user name, but first one is ~01/05 - Erhan Erdogan
4/14/04 4454. Apparently, I deleted a lot at the beginning because my second surviving message is from 5/4/04 and third is from 6/22/04. - Clare Dibble
Your very first message should say something like, "Gmail is different. Here's what you need to know", assuming they still do that. Who can guess what the id of the VERY FIRST Gmail account is? (hint, it's not my name) - Paul Buchheit
09/05/04; 17074 conversations; in the first conversation found I thanked somebody for the invitation. :) the first Gmail account? if I'd be one of the Google-chiefs I would make it "sergey@gmail.com" or so. more realistically though it's probably some test-account. ;) - sebmos
14682 conversations starting from 10/4/04 - Benjamin Golub
60782 conversations(? I think just emails) from 6/15/4 - felix
I had no plans on switching to Gmail because it didn't have IMAP in the beginning and I didn't understand the beauty of the web interface back then. Then one day the CWRU mail servers went down just hours before the Observer (school paper) needed to be ready for printing. Needless to say everyone was panicked because some articles were still floating in limbo. So we all switched to Gmail that night and forwarded our mails to it :) - Benjamin Golub
I'm a late-starter. 12,632 conversations going back to Dec 4, 2005 (an e-mail to the Ceefax.tv team... for some reason). Mind you, I've cheated by importing my old e-mail via IMAP. Seems my very first *Gmail* message was Apr 2, 2006, though. - Cyvros/fyc
18759 conversations. Oldest email 1998... But then again, I imported my old mailbox. While checking this I noticed (and read through) a bunch of emails from Athena from when we first started dating (January 1998)! - Cyrus Lendvay
Joined on 9/1/04.. Count at 11138,though I have deleted as well.... First gmail received beyond the intro was from a friend with a link to a great political archive site still active: http://livingroomcandidate.mov... ... it has just about every presidential race tv ad ever made. Yes, you can watch swift boat, Willie Horton, Daisy and I like Ike again.... - Chris Reed
38052, 4/2/04. i guess i missed signing up on 4/1 :) - Neha Narula
