What's the oldest email you have in your account?

[HEyHEY]

August 5 2003 for me..

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I thought I was the only one...although you have me beat. I am at

August 21 now...I do clean out my mailbox, it's just some I like to save for some unknown reason. And then they languish there.

[Dirk39]

2. feb. 1996: It's something like...

"Dirk, let's give up the Internet, now. They start to include pictures and colours, now. It will never be again, what it was before. Let's just wait for some advertisement on the net. Let's buy books again and just simply talk. One more revolution that's lost"
From my friend Peter, hello from Germany,
Dirk

[Forkboy]

3. I dont know

I can't remember my own email address :shrug:

[Sticky]

4. Sept 18, 1996

As soon as I got my computer I joined the Van Morrison mailing list. Still have a hard time throwing away the daily posts. :)

[HEyHEY]

5. oh and they'll bug you till the end of time

Mclean's won't leave me alone!

[BlueJazz]

6. From The Savior...and all it say's is "Let there be light"

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[Speck Tater]

7. I delete my files every month because

I got my first email when the Internet was still called the Arpa net and you had to work at a good-size university to even get access to it. After many years of collecting email I realized that if I didn't get in the habit of deleting it monthly I have as many emails in my in box as I have assorted used nuts, bolts and widgets in my garage. That was a scary thought!

That came in handy a few months ago when some moron tried to sue our company over some product he claimed to have invented. Proving our design way predated his claim was easy, but the corporate lawyers sent a memo to everyone in the company requesting copies of all emails relating to that particular product. I just replied that I delete all emails every 30 days and was done with it. My co-workers had to spend hours and hours combing through years worth of their old email. Yuck!

Now If I can get in the habit of cleaning our my garage more than once per decade ...

[AquariDem]

8. I recently deleted one from 2001

from a college acquaintance who has long since left college and had a baby.

[hunter]

9. I got my first email in 1979...

And it's probably stored away (in some strange form) in a box in my garage somewhere. Transfering nine track tapes to floppy disks was one black art I used to practice.

I been through a lot of email "accounts" since then.

At first I always had accounts through the University of California, sometime by the kindness of friends or strangers, whenever I wasn't actually enrolled.

Later I was on GEnie, back when science fiction author Jerry Pournelle was there. We had one or two short email exchanges. I think we were both drunk. I didn't save them.

I've got lot's of email saved from when I got my first "honest" commercial internet account in 1992. And I remember when I got my first AOL emails. Some of them told me I was going to go to hell if I didn't clean up my act.

I am the hardened veteran of some of the internet's very first Evolutionist vs. Creationist flame wars, which probably explains why I never bother to put anyone here at DU on "ignore."

[foo_bar]

10. didn't he also storm out on Fresh Air?

I think he got pissed when Terry referred to him as a "science fiction" writer. I don't write science fiction, I write science-based fantasy, or something like that.

[blackcat77]

11. March 16, 2002

It's the note with the activation code for some software. I generally keep those around in case I need to re-install anything. One other note from '02 -- all the rest are '03.

[ComerPerro]

12. I have one from Al Gore, from 1897, stating

ComerPerro,
You have to see this thing I invented. I think I am going to call it the internet.



Damn FReepers.
Have someone distort one of your quotes, and then everyone takes it out of context and treats it like the lie of the century.
But say that a country is loaded with WMD, is trying to buy nuclear weapons, and is going to strike the US, and no one bats an eye when its proven false.

[Nlighten1]

13. Sept 11th 2001

It is titled, "Dude, where's my airplane?"

[7th_Sephiroth]

14. august 4 1999

my girlfriend e-mailing me telling me she left me for the captain of the foot ball team, but i made sure he will never please her by playing a lil "football" myself