Who was your first email account with? Moi.... - Zee.

karoo for me. - alphaxion

America Online...wait...no. Prodigy! - Candace

WebTV. - Rochelle

sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time. - Tsali, The Native of FF

Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail. - Bradley McSpinn

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 Martinez

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

aol - ♥patricia♥

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 ™, Coach Rah

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 - all new for '10!

AOL. I shutter at the thought - BCK

PSU.edu, 1989 - Dave Roth

Toronto FreeNet. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

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. :-) - Ladybug 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

whats 75106,3139? - Zee.

74127,2227 - Christopher Barnes

aol - Computerwhiz1

Those are Compuserve addresses Zee - Adam Turetzky

AOL - Gabe Diaz

Prodigy - Nick Smith

Oof. CompuServe! - Akiva Moskovitz

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 Moskovitz

webtv. - Nation Hahn

Yay Nation Hahn! - Rochelle

aol - Russ Jackson

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 in Real Time

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, ConcertMaven of FF

Prodigy. - Admiral Anika

tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast. - Jeff

crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though - Steve C

Probably Mindspring. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

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

Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

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

@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address - Bastard Operator From FF

A local ISP called Jetlink. - Stan Augustyniewicz

Alta Vista - Brent - Loving Life

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) - Tad

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 aka. Slick

My employer, Microsoft. 1983 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

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

*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

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 - Petr Buben

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

Two at same time, utk.edu for work and hotmail for personal, I actually still use that hotmail acct. - Brytne from Nambu

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, Dork

yahoo - Alfredo

Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good... - Kristian Salonen

AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college. - mark

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 Morrill AKA Techwag

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 (aka Tina)

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

AOL, back in the day - Matthew Allen Horton

hotmail - Rudolf Olah

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 - Katie is Frittering

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

Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox. - Jess Lee

Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then. - howard shippin

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

AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now. - jcunwired

LOL @Leo!! - jcunwired

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

Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink - William Harryman

The US government. - Alex Scoble

Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail" - irfan ÖZTÜRK

Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail. - josh neff, geek at large

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 Koizumi

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 - Amber, Random Time Lord

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! - Matyjas from fftogo

USA.net - Helen Sventitsky

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

pitt.edu, then netaxs.com. - B. Hatin

Penn State University - Ernie Oporto

My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

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

Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it... - Amy H.

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 - Muge Cerman

mail.com *shrug* XD - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

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 - Joelle Nebbe (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

Hotmail. Still have it. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail - Nicholas James

AOL for me... horrible. - Michelle

Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it... - Rich

yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail - Yant