My active eBay account is from 1999.
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I have a 26 year old Whirlpool (an Australian broadband forum) account. It was made in 2000.
If you count Usenet, that goes back 30 years to 1996. It's not technically the web, but the archives can be found on the web
Probably my ModTheSims account from 2005.
My somethingawful account is early 2000's. I can still get into my gamefaqs account too which iirc is late 90s.
There's a short story out there from the days when everyone subscribed to email newsletters.
There are posts on Usenet from the mid-to-late '90s under my real name that are probably still around. I don't go looking for them and hope they don't come looking for me. About 50% of them are an embarrassment.
Online banking since 1999 same bank.
Skyrama
Probably my last.fm account, was made in 2005. Everything else before that has died a death, either because I changed services like with gmail or because the service is no more, like with ICQ etc.
I recently started using IRC again but had a almost 2 decade long break between so I don't think that counts.
I have some guitar tabs I posted from the mid 90s I think
An account on Yahoo Mail from around 1997. Still logging in once in a while.
same, not sure when i started it though. might be more like 2006 for this particular account.
My deviant art account is still around, it's over 20 years old now. Idk, is xanga still around? Most sites I used are gone now.
I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this "buying shit on the internet" thing wasn't going to be a scam.
My original Angelfire website is still around from 1999.
an account from July of 2001 in what then used to be a counter-strike forum.
it still exists and has an active user base but luckily has been taken to private mode.
i don’t think even 5% of the active users still play CS.
My wizard 101 account probably
I have an email address and other accounts from the '90s that still exist.
I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.
I made my Roblox account in 2008, I have older accounts but that's probably the one I could most reliably access.
@dhruv3006 the first time I regisfered this nickname was on PTNet (irc), I still go there time to time to keep it alive, it has over 20 years now
My YouTube account is coming up on 20. Probably that seeing as MySpace was wiped.