Do you still have a ‘Hotmail’ email address

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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…

Why not for job applications?? Genuine question.

Mine is that old it’s Hotmail.co.uk
but I use to have a fsmail.
so I still feel this is my new one.

Ohhh, take no notice of me 🫣 I realised later I was just being weird!!!

Errr I still have an msn.com email address.

I posted earlier - Me too!! Not a lot of us about 😁

AOL doesn't exist any more, but the email part is currently owned by an Italian company.

My first email address was numeric. xxxxx.1244@ compuserve/com.

Same

Yep, [email protected]

I have a .com. Just checked, oldest email saved is from 2006. It’s one of the chain joke emails that used to be sent via work emails. We don‘t see them any more, security tighter everywhere.

I never realised that people judge you by your email address! Do I care?…absolutely not !

Mine's full name and hotmail.co.uk. Didn't realise that showed my age!

I run our local choir website. We cannot sent to Hotmail or Outlook emails as they detect that the message is coming from a mailing list and delete it before it even hits the spam folder. As info about rehearsals and arrangements for upcoming concerts go out by email, it can cause problems.

Well that is another problem with using Someone Elses Tech.

You are subject to their spam/scam detection. Which can lose genuine emails without your realising.

I do. Doesn't that make us early adopters, ie cool? I got it in 1997.

still have my firstnamesurname @ hotmail.com address from 2000 too.

It's my only email address outside of work and yes i use it on my CV. No idea why that would be an issue! They can work out my rough age by my work history anyway....

I do. My original Hotmail address in 2000 was actually myinitialmysurname, but I stupidly forgot the password so I had to add a number to my new similar sounding email address. Been annoyed with myself for doing that ever since!

You need to change the website host then. Your inability to receive emails from normal email addresses is kind of a problem with your systems not the mailer.

Anyone remember yahoo? Haha! My cousin had a yahoo email address. 😂

I have an aol email address 😱🤣

Yup I have the original hotmail.com. the 90s are back in fashion, I'm fashionably retro.

Yes, me too. It's so easy. They'll have to prise it out of my cold, dead hand.

I have a job where I record personal information and the most common email accounts I see are gmail followed by hotmail (.com and .co.uk) None of the other email providers stand out particularly volume wise.

My kids are really impressed that mine is firstnamelastname@ with no numbers but they do consider it out of date. I’m not bothered.

99.9% of people who have an Android phone, tablet or use Chrome will have a gmail address by default.

I never had a Hotmail address, but remember in the early 00s Hotmail addresses were very much looked down on.
My original e-mail was Compuserve, followed by Yahoo, T-Online, Web and now Gmail.
Currently culling my e-mails, so T-Online has gone and Yahoo will be retired soon as it just gets spam these days.
I try, wherever possible, not to use my Google account to log in to websites, in the vain hope that by logging in manually I am not giving away too much of my user activity to a large, American corporation.