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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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Summerhillsquare · 28/03/2026 17:22

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? 😂

Got a full house here - bingo 😁

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 17:19

As an aside if anyone is fucking stupid enough to try and divine wisdom from someones email address, have they considered astrology ?

SabrinaThwaite · 28/03/2026 17:07

FredaFox · 28/03/2026 14:34

I find the joint emails more cringe than hotmail eg SarahAndAndy@xxxx get one each 🤣

DH and I still have a joint hotmail.com email address from the1990s that we use for shared stuff.

We've both got our own Gmail accounts though, dating from the time when you had to be invited by another Gmail user to get one.

DancingAtLunacy · 28/03/2026 17:07

Yes! I’ve had it since 1999 when I set it up to go backpacking, just my name at hotmail.com too. Will never, ever retire it, so many great memories from when it was my only way to communicate with my friends overseas, and keep in touch with new ones, although I mostly use gmail nowadays

JudgeJ · 28/03/2026 16:49

girliepop · 28/03/2026 13:17

Anyone else ntlworld? 👀

We had that a long time ago and also a virgin.net, before ntl wasn't there also mercury, I seem to recall our first internet connection, before broadband, was something quite strange.

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 16:43

Egypt500 · 28/03/2026 16:34

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

Was that from the time when Microsoft tried to convince the world that the internet was a waste of time and what you really needed was the MicroSoft Network ? When Netscape still ruled and you needed Trumpet Winsock to do your networking ?

Serenity45 · 28/03/2026 16:39

Yep full name no numbers. Been married 12 years and still kept my original email address. Whenever I need to take an email at work I always inwardly smile if it's an OG one Grin

Egypt500 · 28/03/2026 16:34

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

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 16:31

muddyford · 28/03/2026 16:29

I've had mine since 2002. Can't see why I would want to change it. Mine is .co.uk not .com.

If Microsoft decided to charge for it (as well as training their AI on it) ?

muddyford · 28/03/2026 16:29

I've had mine since 2002. Can't see why I would want to change it. Mine is .co.uk not .com.

SerendipityJane · 28/03/2026 16:28

lingmerth · 28/03/2026 16:19

Anyone got a blueyonder email address?

or Telewest ?

GeorginaWilby · 28/03/2026 16:26

I've had my hotmail email account since 1996. It's so simple, just my real name @hotmail. I've only changed my password once, and that was after 20 years. My old password was lol which now makes me lol. I have a few other email accounts now, but the hotmail is my main one still.

lingmerth · 28/03/2026 16:19

Anyone got a blueyonder email address?

Mmmcheese89 · 28/03/2026 16:12

Yes.

Not wholly unusual first name,very common surname,year of birth at Hotmail. I do have a .co.uk though, not .com.

I do have the gmail.com with the same handle but use them for different things.

I'm not giving it up. I can never have it without my YoB even as there is just too many of us. There's even a me in Essex with a slightly more popular spelling of my first name who regularly gets my email. Thankfully she forwards it on and hasn't committed fraud (that I can see on my credit file).

EBearhug · 28/03/2026 15:55

TulipsDaffsAndSunshine · 28/03/2026 15:34

Yahoo here. But they’re going to close soon! ☹️

Are they? I thought they were just charging for storage.

SheldontheWonderSchlong · 28/03/2026 15:42

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 😬

Woah there….my aol email is still my main one! Surely by now it’s retro cool?! I especially like it when I hear Destiny’s Child sing ‘have aol make my email stop’ 😁

dontforgetme · 28/03/2026 15:41

Yes! A young (19,20 maybe) man in the bank laughed out loud at it a couple of weeks ago, said Hotmail is from the Stone Age. I’m only 33 for Christ sake 😂

mogtheexcellent · 28/03/2026 15:37

Yup although i had to add numbers as name was taken so went for the year i set it up.

Weirdly I managed to grab a hotmail.com one for DD using her real name and no numbers last year. She's one of a kind, clearly.

TulipsDaffsAndSunshine · 28/03/2026 15:35

Beachtastic · 28/03/2026 15:22

By "double spaces" they probably mean not line spacing, but that habit of typing two spaces between sentences.

I'm with you on the side partings 🤣

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Love a side parting!

Butchyrestingface · 28/03/2026 15:34

TulipsDaffsAndSunshine · 28/03/2026 15:34

Yahoo here. But they’re going to close soon! ☹️

What???

TulipsDaffsAndSunshine · 28/03/2026 15:34

Yahoo here. But they’re going to close soon! ☹️

EarlofShrewsbury · 28/03/2026 15:31

Ohfudgeoff · 28/03/2026 11:05

Full maiden name for me. 😂

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Mine is a shorted version of my maiden name, which is coincidentally also a slang term related to drugs.

It made sense when I was known by my maiden name. Now I'm married, it just looks like I really like drugs.

Beachtastic · 28/03/2026 15:22

Dontlletmedownbruce · 28/03/2026 15:04

This is news to me... what do you mean about side partings? Surely you part you hair the way is falls naturally? And what's the deal with double spaces. Do youngsters use single or 1.5?

Honestly most young people I know are not very computer literate at all. They only know how to consume. Obviously depends on the industry but I've often been surprised by teen DS or young colleagues at work being a bit clueless about admin.

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By "double spaces" they probably mean not line spacing, but that habit of typing two spaces between sentences.

I'm with you on the side partings 🤣

ShanghaiDiva · 28/03/2026 15:21

TheCurious0range · 28/03/2026 14:15

Me too!

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And me!

ZookeeperSE · 28/03/2026 15:15

Didn’t even realise this was a thing. But just googling shows that there’s a possibility some companies may use it to weed out applicants. Which, frankly, is a good thing because I very much doubt I’d want to work for a company that thought that was in any way relevant. I’ve been in tech for over thirty years, and I got my Hotmail.com account in 97, probably round about the time Microsoft bought them out. It’s how my huge number of contacts know how to get in touch with me so it won’t be changing any time soon. I’ve got others, including one for the IT company I current run with DH. DH who has been in tech from the very start of the ‘modern’ tech era in the 1970s and also has a Hotmail.com account, amongst others. He actually used to run a company called Internet in the 1970s, shame he didn’t think to protect that name somehow, could’ve made a fortune selling it 😁. We’ve moved forward continuously and are now working on AI solutions for imp/exp businesses and banks. So not really quaking about weird opinions of the, still wet behind the ears, tech bros of the last five minutes 😊

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