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…

Initials surname @ Hotmail.com

My actual first name + surname is a very famous stage name, and was not available.

Sure do! Full name at Hotmail.com

I’m 41 and I’ve had since I was 16 ❤️ I also have a second one which is made up of a Tori Amos song lyric which I’ve had since I was 14 🤣

Oh I remember those! Never had one, but they actually seemed quite techy!

I do, I also have a Gmail for convenience, but I like still having my Hotmail. We are the OG's 😂

I have one which I use when signing up for certain things. My proper email address is a more modern one.

I got mine late 97 or early 98. I still use it as my main email. I consider it vintage.

Yup I’m on hotmail dot com too, had it for 25 years now.

Yep! Full name hotmail account, but i use my outlook one for the same account now

Mine is aol….😉

I have three, one for work (freelancer and give no shits), one for spam, one for my side hustle. And because Hotmail is sometimes blocked as suspect, I also have an AOL address that took over from my very first email address evah, which was Compuserve. Some of my increasingly rare and precious brain cells are clogged up with the first ID of that address, about 15 digits. 🙄

Yep I’ve got one. It’s myfirstnamemysurname @hotmail.com. I have been congratulated in a shop for managing to get that 😅. I’ve had it since I got married nearly 25 years ago, before that I had the same but with my previous surname.

If you claim to work in IT, but aren't rocking your own domain, it raises eyebrows.

Yep. First name and initial.

Yup. Full name @ hotmail.com .
Didt realise it was an age thing!😁

My 12 year old has a Hotmail.com so you can still get them!

Still use mine, set up in 97 no shame. I'm an 'elder millenial' apparently.

Yes still use mine

Yes, full name too.

Me too!

No hotmail but do have a 'catchy phrase' yahoo address instead of my name from the 90s... mostly use my gmail now which is my initials and name but yahoo one still used.

Next they'll be asking if you ever used the 'Ask Jeeves' search engine! 🤣

I switched over to gmail, when I got an invite in 2004, and haven't had a hotmail since, I regret not getting my name.surname at gmail.com though I wasted my invites on some horrendously cringe usernames so I no longer use them, but still use gmail

Yes. I know it means I'm old! But I also have Gmail ones. One with my married name that is only for applications. Other email addresses full of shite!

What should we use instead?

Yes, I've got multiple email addresses, but I keep my old Hotmail one, which I created at age 14, out of sentimentality.

Yep and I have no intention of changing it. I also have a work one (self employed) which I use a lot now, but all my personal admin stuff (insurance, utilities, mortgage etc) are all with my Hotmail account. Too much faff to change it after all these years.