Ian Moulster's blog

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 10:29 AM

Been with Hotmail since 7 March 1999... witnessed quite a few changes about the place!

Jamie Akers

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 10:53 AM

june 08, 1998

stuart

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 11:31 AM

Been with Hotmail since September 08, 1998

Krishna

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 11:34 AM

Jan 1, 1995 Start of 14th Year on Jan 1 2008

jchowl01

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 11:55 AM

Registered with Hotmail since: January 01, 1995

Manoj

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 12:34 PM

Registered since:  October 02, 1998

Tim

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 1:08 PM

Registered since: December 06, 1997

skc

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 1:11 PM

oct 12 1997

Steve

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 3:47 PM

June 2002 - I am a young-un compared to many here!

I did have another account that I cancelled due to SPAM in 2002.  So it was a couple of years older but probably not as old as some here.

WindowsObserver

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Monday, December 17, 2007 4:20 PM

Registered since : June 30, 1998

Helmer.hzNET

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:53 AM

Registered since: March 22, 1999  

WildHeart

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 5:27 AM

12 January 1998

The earliest you can get is July 4 1996, when it was launched (unless you were a hotmail developer!)

Martin

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 7:13 AM

Registered since: May 12, 1998

alvinashcraft

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 7:32 AM

Registered since: February 21, 2001

Longer than I had thought.  No complaints at all either.  Outlook Connector is the best feature to date.

Ryan Cromwell

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 10:21 AM

Registered since:  January 09, 1997

Lucas

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 11:03 AM

Registered since:  January 09, 1997

the logo read HoTMaiL (as in HTML mail)

about a year before microsoft bought it

Lucas

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:40 PM

I was going to say I thought January 16, 2000 was "pretty old", but I can see that I was wrong.  Wow! 1995 ... that's like before the internet was born, right?  ;-)

Mike Chess

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 2:32 PM

Registered since: April 28, 1997

Niels Ladegaard Beck

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 5:57 PM

Mine is January 1st 1970.

No, alright, really it is may 2nd 2000.

Ian

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 6:41 PM

Mine also says "Registered since: 01 January 1995"..

However I seriously doubt I'd have actually signed up on 1st January any year, I suspect it's just an arbitrary date..

Matt H

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 7:12 PM

Registered since: September 02, 1999

Amro

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, December 21, 2007 11:23 PM

Registered since: July 10, 1996

Brad

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:10 AM

10 years :-)

Registered since: October 22, 1997

Runi Thomsen

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:11 AM

Registered since: September 21, 2000

Scott

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:47 AM

Registered since: October 22, 1997

Over 10 years - yeah!

Runi Thomsen

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Saturday, December 22, 2007 3:25 PM

Jan 05, 1999, so almost 9 years! :)

I created it in the time for Hotmail. But when actually accessing Hotmail today, it was reactivated. I have no idea how long it has been, but it must've been since Gmail was born! Gmail rocks my world! Go try it! I was one of the first! :)

Dennis van der Stelt

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Sunday, December 23, 2007 5:13 PM

Jan 06 1999

but somehow.. my hotmail account is for receiving bulk mails .. I check once a month

Kalyan

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:48 AM

satn@hotmail.com

Registered since: August 30, 1997

Sathya

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:46 PM

Registered since:  April 14, 1998

I was so proud of my hotmail acct. when I got it.  It was my first email acct.  It's pretty much been a spam bucket since '99.  

Pete

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:06 PM

Sometime around Feb 1995 (pre M$ I think), but left for Yahoo because:

a) spam was more of a problem than elsewhere

b) interface, slow, confusing, clunky & too many ads

Initially kept hotmail as a repository for old emails, and catching people who hadn't updated their address books, however this all ended when the powers that be decided to suspend accounts, and delete all emails in all folders if you hadn't logged in for something like 14 days.  Customer count --.

Terrible service. Why anybody stays I don't know!!

Darren

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:31 PM

Registered since: July 15, 1997.

C# Junkie

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:20 AM

Registered since: 19 September 1998  Country/Region: United Kingdom

John Barton

John Barton

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:39 PM

Registered since: January 29, 1997

Anders

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, January 04, 2008 10:13 AM

Registered since 10 September 1998.

When did Hotmail actually launch?

Drew Noakes

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, January 11, 2008 6:01 AM

April 1995. Sameer Bhatia insipired to develop career in IT Software;-)

Pryank

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:27 AM

Registered since: 28 March 1998

Edd

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:04 AM

Registered since: April 01, 1998

CS

CS

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:08 AM

Dude,

Though there are many old pals here .. i've registered since 10th Aug 1998.

And this is my personal mail.

dskcheck

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:50 AM

9th July 1999. This was my first email account. :)

Rai

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:29 AM

September 29, 1997

Roman

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, February 29, 2008 9:18 PM

HIBOB Bourke

Registered since: October 12, 1998

Bob

# re: 7 years of Hotmail @ Friday, April 11, 2008 11:35 PM

Registered Since: 31 August 1997

Pat