7 years of Hotmail

According to my account summary page I'm at my 7 year anniversary as a user of Hotmail - I first registered way back in December 2000.

So I feel like I'm an old hand but I bet there are plenty of people who have been with Hotmail longer.

Who can beat 7 years?

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Been with Hotmail since 7 March 1999... witnessed quite a few changes about the place!

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  june 08, 1998

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Been with Hotmail since September 08, 1998

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Jan 1, 1995 Start of 14th Year on Jan 1 2008

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Registered with Hotmail since: January 01, 1995

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  jchowl01 & Manoj - you win the prize. Not that there is actually a prize :-) I feel like a bit of a junior...

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Registered since:  October 02, 1998

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Registered since: December 06, 1997

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  oct 12 1997

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  June 2002 - I am a young-un compared to many here! I did have another account that I cancelled due to SPAM in 2002.  So it was a couple of years older but probably not as old as some here.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Registered since : June 30, 1998

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Registered since: March 22, 1999  

• Anonymous
  December 20, 2007
  12 January 1998 The earliest you can get is July 4 1996, when it was launched (unless you were a hotmail developer!)

• Anonymous
  December 20, 2007
  Registered since: May 12, 1998

• Anonymous
  December 20, 2007
  Registered since: February 21, 2001 Longer than I had thought.  No complaints at all either.  Outlook Connector is the best feature to date.

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Registered since:  January 09, 1997

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Registered since:  January 09, 1997 the logo read HoTMaiL (as in HTML mail) about a year before microsoft bought it

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  I was going to say I thought January 16, 2000 was "pretty old", but I can see that I was wrong.  Wow! 1995 ... that's like before the internet was born, right?  ;-)

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Registered since: April 28, 1997

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Mine is January 1st 1970. No, alright, really it is may 2nd 2000.

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Mine also says "Registered since: 01 January 1995".. However I seriously doubt I'd have actually signed up on 1st January any year, I suspect it's just an arbitrary date..

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Registered since: September 02, 1999

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  Registered since: July 10, 1996

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2007
  10 years :-) Registered since: October 22, 1997

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2007
  Registered since: September 21, 2000

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2007
  Registered since: October 22, 1997 Over 10 years - yeah!

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2007
  Jan 05, 1999, so almost 9 years! :) I created it in the time for Hotmail. But when actually accessing Hotmail today, it was reactivated. I have no idea how long it has been, but it must've been since Gmail was born! Gmail rocks my world! Go try it! I was one of the first! :)

• Anonymous
  December 23, 2007
  Jan 06 1999 but somehow.. my hotmail account is for receiving bulk mails .. I check once a month

• Anonymous
  December 26, 2007
  satn@hotmail.com Registered since: August 30, 1997

• Anonymous
  December 26, 2007
  Registered since:  April 14, 1998 I was so proud of my hotmail acct. when I got it.  It was my first email acct.  It's pretty much been a spam bucket since '99.  

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2007
  Sometime around Feb 1995 (pre M$ I think), but left for Yahoo because: a) spam was more of a problem than elsewhere b) interface, slow, confusing, clunky & too many ads Initially kept hotmail as a repository for old emails, and catching people who hadn't updated their address books, however this all ended when the powers that be decided to suspend accounts, and delete all emails in all folders if you hadn't logged in for something like 14 days.  Customer count --. Terrible service. Why anybody stays I don't know!!

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2008
  Registered since: July 15, 1997.

• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
  Registered since: January 29, 1997

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2008
  Registered since 10 September 1998. When did Hotmail actually launch?

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2008
  April 1995. Sameer Bhatia insipired to develop career in IT Software;-)

• Anonymous
  January 16, 2008
  Registered since: 28 March 1998

• Anonymous
  January 16, 2008
  Registered since: April 01, 1998 CS

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2008
  Dude, Though there are many old pals here .. i've registered since 10th Aug 1998. And this is my personal mail.

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2008
  9th July 1999. This was my first email account. :)

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2008
  September 29, 1997

• Anonymous
  February 29, 2008
  HIBOB Bourke Registered since: October 12, 1998

• Anonymous
  April 11, 2008
  Registered Since: 31 August 1997

• Anonymous
  November 25, 2008
  Registered since: December 29, 1997

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2010
  Registered since:  August 05, 1996 I remember registering it to look for jobs back then and the email by the local ISP is just terrible.