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Do you still have a ‘Hotmail’ email address

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flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 10:57

Keep seeing this mentioned on social media in videos or posts about being old 😳🤣
I have no plans to change my email but lots of people saying they hate giving their email address to people and having to say ‘@ hotmail.com’
I didn’t even realise new emails don’t still use this…

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AliTheMinx · 28/03/2026 11:20

Yes! I love my hotmail.com email, which I set up at Uni in 1996! No plans to change..

19lottie82 · 28/03/2026 11:20

I’ve got one that I set up when I was 14 in 1996 😎 it’s [email protected]

Beachtastic · 28/03/2026 11:20

flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 11:05

I still use mine for job applications..

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I guess as long as it works...! and you're not appling for IT/tech jobs 😜

Hotmail allows you to create an Outlook alias for email if you prefer (see Reddit link).

Some poorly designed websites treat hotmail addresses as invalid, but it's just a coding bug (sloppy validation), not a problem with hotmail itself.

www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/tp9zue/is_having_a_hotmail_address_hurting_my_chances_of/

MuchTooTired · 28/03/2026 11:19

I’ve got a Hotmail.com one. I know it’s linked to my Facebook profile and that was 20 years ago but I had my email address way before that.

Crumbs, I feel very wise and experienced in life old now - in my head I’m 19! The maths ain’t mathing once again…!

Natsku · 28/03/2026 11:19

Still have mine, though I used my nickname rather than full name so it is not the email address I use in general life Grin instead I use my Gmail account which is my name with numbers or anything as I set it up back when it was invitation only.

Moonnstarz · 28/03/2026 11:18

I didn't realise having a Hotmail address was a problem or that it made you old 🙈

Farewelltothatid · 28/03/2026 11:16

xOlive · 28/03/2026 10:59

As if our skinny jeans and side partings weren’t enough of a giveaway, we now need to be self-conscious about our email addresses? 😂

My son has a Hotmail email address. I don't see a problem.

Until I ditched Virgin Media 3 years ago I still had an ntlworld.com email address dating back to early 1990s.

Parsleyforme · 28/03/2026 11:16

I still use Hotmail but I have a .co.uk email address. The .com ones are definitely quite old! At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes I see tradesmen with AOL or BTinternet email addresses and I assume they’ve been in business a long time and are too busy having lots of work to bother changing it! Absolutely everything (including work) goes through my Hotmail so I don’t have a clue how I’d go about changing it for every account I’ve ever made on a website

edit - but I actually do want to change it because it’s so difficult to say over the phone. It’s something like sarabbmacdonald so I have to say the spelling of each word and the letters in the middle sound like other letters

Overtheatlantic · 28/03/2026 11:15

Mines from the late 90s! I didn’t know it marked me as an oldie 😆

Catisheavyonmylap · 28/03/2026 11:14

Which websites? Can’t say I’ve had any issues, but then I do tend to use hide my email a lot.

myglowupera · 28/03/2026 11:13

flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 11:12

However, certain websites no longer view hotmail accounts as valid emails, so I keep my Gmail in my back pocket

Whatt

I didn’t realise this either!

toomuchfaff · 28/03/2026 11:13

mine is an original @ hotmail. com address; name - no numbers! So i was the first of my name to get it!

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flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 11:12

However, certain websites no longer view hotmail accounts as valid emails, so I keep my Gmail in my back pocket

Whatt

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Gingernaut · 28/03/2026 11:10

I do.

However, certain websites no longer view hotmail accounts as valid emails, so I keep my Gmail in my back pocket

My gmail account is simply my firstname,last name

My little brother had to invite me to create my account

myglowupera · 28/03/2026 11:09

Yes I do 😄 I set it up around 2010 when I needed a more “grown up” sounding email address after my 2004 one started to sound a bit silly. That one still exists too though.

Runningismyhappyplace50 · 28/03/2026 11:08

Yes I do as my main email but also have iCloud and gmail but they are rarely used/checked.

hazelberry · 28/03/2026 11:07

bugalugs45 · 28/03/2026 11:03

Yes , a co.uk one though , my brother still has the original .com from late 90s!

Mines an original .com address.

caringcarer · 28/03/2026 11:06

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

Yes, with my full name, no numbers/special characters, I'm that old 🤣

Same. I don't care. I can remember it.

crossroadsfan · 28/03/2026 11:06

My ex had a btinternet email until it got hacked in the end 😂

Ohfudgeoff · 28/03/2026 11:06

But where else does one get an email address these days, if not Hotmail or AOL?!

CallingOnTheMegaphone · 28/03/2026 11:06

Hahaha you've just reminded me that a uni friend's email address was [name]loveslasagne at Hotmail. I wonder if she still uses that?! I've always been a Yahoo girl myself.

Xmasshoppinghell · 28/03/2026 11:05

Mine is Hotmail.co.uk. Not sure if that’s worse. People always trying to correct it to .com

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 28/03/2026 11:05

I love having a Hotmail.com email! Makes me feel very senior and experienced 😂

Mine is just my first initial and surname too (my full name is too long to have that unfortunately).

No numbers or special characters here either

Ohfudgeoff · 28/03/2026 11:05

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

Yes, with my full name, no numbers/special characters, I'm that old 🤣

Full maiden name for me. 😂

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flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 11:05

Beachtastic · 28/03/2026 11:03

It's not quite as bad as an AOL email address, which I actually saw recently!

Who cares, as long as it works. But not for job applications 😬

I still use mine for job applications..

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