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Do you still have a ‘Hotmail’ email address

391 replies

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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macaroni234 · 28/03/2026 21:01

This had past me by. I have name @hotmail.combut also have a gmail email. I might have to start using that as my main one!

I also have the OG Boots card. Somehow never lost it. It’s got to be about 30 years old??

Covidwoes · 28/03/2026 21:02

Yes! 😂😂 How old are you all? I am 40!

Xsunshinelollipopsx · 28/03/2026 21:04

I’m 44 Hotmail.commer
my dads 72 with OG mobile phone number 😂

Covidwoes · 28/03/2026 21:06

@SeriousTissuesI can hear Joanna Lumley now - “Welcome to AOL!” 😂

ElinorDashwood68 · 28/03/2026 21:08

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

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

Same!

ImMissingMum · 28/03/2026 21:08

bugalugs45 · 28/03/2026 11:03

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

I have a dot.com Hotmail email, and it's my full name and it's linked to bloody everything so I don't even care if it means I'm old lol.

AnonSugar · 28/03/2026 21:11

I’m a Hotmail.co.uk girl 🤣😩

Wonderlandpeony · 28/03/2026 21:12

Yes for around twenty years now, and do feel slightly embarassed using it as never notice anyone having one these days. Now this post has confirmed it I am officially uncool!

CatInACatnipComa · 28/03/2026 21:21

Full name no numbers at Hotmail dot com. From 1998 or 99!

Itsallsostressful · 28/03/2026 21:28

Farewelltothatid · 28/03/2026 11:16

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.

I've still got an ntlworld.com email address as my mail email !!!!

Tipsowner · 28/03/2026 21:29

No.

UniquePinkSwan · 28/03/2026 21:30

My DH still has Hotmail. When he says his email for shops etc I get embarrassed. He won’t change it though.

StripedPillowcase · 28/03/2026 21:31

I have 2 Hotmail.com addresses, one with underscores and middle initial, so albertinaqfothersham, and one that is middlenamemotherssurname that I use to register for stuff that is likely to result in spam.

I also have 2 Gmail addresses for work, one with legal name and one with professional name.

SabrinaThwaite · 28/03/2026 21:33

UniquePinkSwan · 28/03/2026 21:30

My DH still has Hotmail. When he says his email for shops etc I get embarrassed. He won’t change it though.

That sounds like more of a you problem.

CuriousAries · 28/03/2026 21:42

Is msn.com just as bad/old?

Rhaenys · 28/03/2026 21:45

I’m lucky that I chose a sensible email address as a teenager, so have had the same one for over 20 years now. I have had a work email address that was gmail, but that just felt wrong. 😂

SwedishEdith · 28/03/2026 21:47

PashaMinaMio · 28/03/2026 11:45

Mine sounds Italian!
Youngsters can’t spell it. It’s very very old.
Full.name@italian sounding domain.co.uk
It’s rather sophisticated. I have no desire to change it.

Is that Tiscali?

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 28/03/2026 21:49

Surprised Hotmail is still about.
Thought it had been consigned to Noah's Ark.

Firefly1987 · 28/03/2026 21:50

Yeah am thinking of changing soon though. Every time I try to log in recently it tells me "you've tried to sign in too many times" even though I haven't Confused cynical me thinks it's a ploy to get me to switch to a passkey or something.

FlipFlopVibe · 28/03/2026 21:52

I don’t just have a hotmail email address, I have an MSN one!!! 😂🫣

k1233 · 28/03/2026 22:00

I'm so old my hotmail address is my first and last name. I recently had to get a new licence number due to being impacted by three major data breaches and am ticked I've now got a "current" number.

TheABC · 28/03/2026 22:11

I keep mine out out of fondness. I have others but I know at some point it will be some old it will be retro, and therefore cool.

CoffeeInTheClouds · 28/03/2026 22:30

Firefly1987 · 28/03/2026 21:50

Yeah am thinking of changing soon though. Every time I try to log in recently it tells me "you've tried to sign in too many times" even though I haven't Confused cynical me thinks it's a ploy to get me to switch to a passkey or something.

Exactly the same is happening to me today!

nj32 · 28/03/2026 22:36

Me too, full name (maiden name)
Com, from around 1996

tommyhoundmum · 28/03/2026 22:39

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…

I still have yahoo.