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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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Femalemachinest · 28/03/2026 19:32

I still have msn.com 😂

StolenTeapots · 28/03/2026 19:18

NormasArse · 28/03/2026 11:00

Me too! Set up in, I think 2001?

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I have my first name. No other characters! I got in fast with making it!

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 19:09

I wonder how many - if any - retailers use customers email addresses to target marketing ?

peoplegetready · 28/03/2026 19:06

DoorOpening · 28/03/2026 11:24

I don’t like to brag, but I would just add that my hotmail.com email address has an underscore between my first and last names.

As does mine. And all my children down to my 20 year old have Hotmail.com emails

wellstopdoingitthen · 28/03/2026 19:01

Typtoe · 28/03/2026 11:01

Yes although I have multiple email addresses to take advantage of free trials but my main one of my hotmail one I created probably 25 years ago!

Its just my name and year of birth. I'm perfectly happy to be the age that I am and if hotmail didn't give that away, my year of birth would anyway!

I use ‘hide my email ‘ option for free trials etc. very useful function.

I’m also old with a Hotmail.com account 🤷‍♀️

shuddacuddadidnt · 28/03/2026 18:58

Yes, middle name only @.co.uk
But that's only for people I know, as I use 'hide my email' all the time for shopping, new websites etc even tho I'm very old.

Beachtastic · 28/03/2026 18:53

I've just realised I've been talking out of my arse looking down on hotmail. I just associate it with social accounts rather than business. But that's because I have my own domain name for work stuff, so my email is [email protected] (or something along those lines)! I now realise what a snob I am being 🫣

...but AOL and ntworld do seem rather obsolete now. I used to have those years ago, but it all got very complicated when they changed hands - especially ntlworld: Virgin seemed to tack it on as an afterthought, and were very lackadaisical about outages.

Tarkan · 28/03/2026 18:52

No but I have an AOL one still. I don’t use it for anything important now as I have gmail for that but it’s handy for mailing lists or online accounts for sites if I don’t want to see tons of emails with whatever offers are on.

It also starts with a capital letter and when I got it, if someone used the lower case letter instead then I didn’t get the email, it really did make a difference back in the day. I don’t know if it still does it at times as I have had recent emails to that account go missing (another reason I use my gmail for anything important).

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/03/2026 18:48

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

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

Joining the club.

Grin
HaveYouHadYourBreak · 28/03/2026 18:46

Does anyone remember when hotmail crashed completely for about 48hrs a few years ago? Lots of "old people" freaking out and them there youngsters joking about emails in the 1990s. 🤣

HaveYouHadYourBreak · 28/03/2026 18:43

I got asked how old I was because my email address is my name! No numbers or random symbols. And yes, it is my name @hotmail. 🤣

BooBooDoodle · 28/03/2026 18:42

I’ve still got mine. It was the first email I set up and has my childhood dogs name and a random number in it. I do have an iCloud one now in my actual name which is more grown up. Couldn’t imagine schools or the doctors contacting me via my Hotmail one. It is now used for signing up to stuff or when you have to put an email down. Basically a spam folder of sorts.

JackJarvisEsq · 28/03/2026 18:40

Yep, with someone on the Channel Islands who thinks it’s hers 😡

MoonWoman69 · 28/03/2026 18:38

My main email address is my full name @hotmail.co.uk. Doesn't bother me one bit to give it out as my email address! I can't see what the issue is!

BloodyHellBob · 28/03/2026 18:27

I am so old that it’s my full name and no special characters and also ends in @hotmail.co.ukI’m obviously ancient 😁

Doyouknowdanieltiger · 28/03/2026 18:21

Yep Hotmail.com had it since 2004. My only email address too!

Carpedimum · 28/03/2026 18:18

Several years ago I had to give an email address over the phone to a young man who laughed uproariously when I said ‘msn.com’ 🤨 between breathless sniggers he said, ‘msn? I remember that! old skooooolll!’ Reader, I have not changed it.

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 18:15

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 28/03/2026 18:03

I agree! I can’t see how haven’t had something at its inception isn’t a cool thing!

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For a while, my name was in the KERMIT software archive dating back to 198mumble and is somewhere in an RFC mailing list from around then. It can make me a little less interested in hearing about the history of the internet from a 40 year old ....

somethingerudite · 28/03/2026 18:04

My Hotmail username has the word temporary in it - set up in 1998 for a work trip - turned out not to be so temporary after all!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 28/03/2026 18:03

imip · 28/03/2026 11:34

My dc have just started teasing me for mine! I have my full name @hotmail.com. I set it up on about 1996/7? I feel pretty cool about it esp as it comes up to its 3rd decade of constant use!

I agree! I can’t see how haven’t had something at its inception isn’t a cool thing!

WhaleEye · 28/03/2026 17:56

NormasArse · 28/03/2026 11:00

Me too! Set up in, I think 2001?

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Me too.
had the option to change it to .co.uk when it came out but decided not too!

linsey2581 · 28/03/2026 17:54

Yup mine is my full name (maiden name) @ hotmail.com had it since I was 15 I’m now 45

Meteorite87 · 28/03/2026 17:50

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

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

Same 😄

I set mine up in 1999 as my "personal" email and have no plans to change it.

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 17:47

EBearhug · 28/03/2026 17:42

I used to manage servers which hosted MSN.

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For nearly 2 years, MSN messenger was my management portal to India ...

EBearhug · 28/03/2026 17:42

Egypt500 · 28/03/2026 16:34

I’m so old my address is full name @ msn.com. Beat that!!

I used to manage servers which hosted MSN.