Over a decade of my Hotmail

That’s the email that I got in my Hotmail account this morning. Wow, a decade-plus of that email address? I had to check it out.

It took a bit of finagling, but if you have a Hotmail address, from your inbox, go to the very bottom-right of the page. There should be a place to click on “Account” or “Feedback.” Click on “Account.” You may have to enter your password again.

You’ll be taken to a page that shows some of your basic info — but also includes the date you registered for your email address. Turns out that I’ve been logging in to gramiq@hotmail.com since September 19, 1998.

I actually remember having a Hotmail account prior to that, but it was getting spammy, so this was my second one. At the time, I also had a Brandon University email address — I think it was hamilga@brandonu.ca — and the Hotmail one was kind of a novelty. Weird that I still use it as a semi-permanent email address.

For what it’s worth, I’ve tried to migrate to a Gmail account, but I get so much legacy stuff (bank statements, mailing lists, long-lost friends) that it’s just not practical. Adding to that, I’ve got so many other websites where I use “gramiq@hotmail.com” as a login ID. My switching cost is too high. Even my grant@absurdintellectual.com email address redirects there.

Sigh. Over a decade of the same email address.

The Internet is old.