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

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 (והאראסי) 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 Lea Fox

6/16/04 and 25209 messages - had to bribe a friend with a T-Shirt to get the invite... - Frederic

4/19/04 and 33204 messages. - Atul Arora

6/30/04 and 6400 - i got my invite from a guy at MSN ;-) - Alex Gawley

6/29/04 13086 Aw, my 1st email was from my mom :) I bought my gmail invite on eBay for $14 :D - thepete

10/27/04 and 18249 messages - Lode Nachtergaele

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

9/26/04 :( a year later - Suryakant Patidar via twhirl

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

caribou@ ? - Alex Gawley

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

10,450 convos since 1/17/05 - Shey

9039 convos starting on 7/4/04. I'm an IM'er not an emailer. :) - EricaJoy

5/4/97 (thanks to importing) and 40,362 conversations - Mihai Parparita

10/20/04 and 5547 convos - Jason Dettbarn via Alert Thingy

10725, 07/27/02 -- i imported a bunch of mails from my Yahoo inbox to GMail! - Ashwin Bharambe

1001 since 09/29/2005 - Ian

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

27,273 since 6/17/04 - Chieze Okoye

8/5/04 3,202 emails - Hutch Carpenter

Have 9436 convos since I started using Gmail on 7/4/2004. But I tend to delete emails, an old habit :) - Turker Keskinpala

11,671; 7/30/03 (I delete emails, too) - April Buchheit

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

4/04/04 and 64079 emails - Lilly Irani

4/1/04 - 4932 conversations (and counting) - Mark Trapp via Alert Thingy

4/2/04, 9005 convos :) - Karen

4/01/04 -- 28,919 - Kerah

9/5/04 -- 14,292 (reduced due to annual purging) - Michael Leggett

17,448 emails - 11/18/04 is the earliest. Man... I feel like a Gmail noob - Brandon Titus

I've merlin mann'd my email usage to a minimum: started 06/15/04 -- 2,768 conversations. #gmail - Karl

4/22/04 and 20,518..;) - Scott Small

6/18/05 -- 32761.. hmm.. quite a lot! - Jigar Mehta via twhirl