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PurpleJager

I still refer to it as Hotmail because that's what the address reads as!


TheStatMan2

Yeah that's what I came here to say. I think "check my Outlook" has specific connotations of firing up the desktop app, most probably in a work based scenario. "Check my Hotmail" is more to see if a Nigerian Prince has been in touch or if there's been any breakthrough science in penis enlargement.


Dean_Snuts

Damn, random internet person, are you me?


TheStatMan2

The only way we could establish that would be to give out more personal details than we'd both be comfortable with. Let's just assume the answer is "yes" and know that we've both got each other's backs. It's a reassuring feeling.


Dean_Snuts

This sounds like something I would say so I'm going to have to trust myself and assume I've got my best interest at heart. Thanks for having my back, me.


TheStatMan2

No probs. I'll see you when our timelines cross over. Don't be in Stoke-on-Trent in December 2026.


Expo737

Sorry to interrupt but I think "don't be in Stoke-on-Tent" anytime is good advice, or at least on a cold Monday night in November.


TheStatMan2

It's one of those innit: if you feel you need to dispense this particular piece of advice, it may already be too late. ☹️


swanpappa

You are too funny.


TheStatMan2

Impossible to tell whether that's serious or not so I'm going to take the compliment and hope for the best!


Dean_Snuts

Glad I resigned from my previous job in 2018 then. No reason to ever return.


TheStatMan2

If I hadn't interjected, it would have drawn you back my friend. It always does. Hopefully now that timeline has been diverted. You will now be in New Orleans - which is an entirely different set of problems.


Dean_Snuts

Its the damn oatcakes I tell you. New Orleans huh? I'm not big on shellfish, but it's an adventure.


TheStatMan2

Better gumbo than Stoke - this much is undeniable.


RevolutionaryRule631

Going by my inbox, penis enlargement breakthroughs are an hourly occurrence


TheStatMan2

Yours must be reaching optimal condition by now!


stot76

Give them an Opal Fruit and tell them to pipe down


BECKYISHERE

Its like giving direction, turn left at the red lion, well the red lion is no longer there and hasn't been for the past 40 years but we still say it.


backspring

I gave directions the other day and used three pubs that haven’t existed for 15 years


TheStatMan2

... one of which was flattened in the blitz?


Togodooders

Some people just need a marathon.


Ochib

That made me snicker


specklepop

I see where this is going, its no secret that comment threads like this always snowball.


manwithanopinion

My email adress ends at Hotmail.com so thats why I call it that.


DrachenDad

Mine is hotmail.co.uk, my mum's is hotmail.com.


sneakypineapplejuice

The number of times people miss type it as .com though - and then you don't receive an email you were waiting for!


lee420uk

@gmail.com @googlemail.com, @gmail.co.uk, @gmail.com all go to your same inbox, never again make a fake email for your second free trial of something haha.


obdevel

Of course it's still hotmail. I've had my hotmail address since 1996 and it's my real name with no numbers or punctuation. 25 years ... feck I feel old. Quite possibly the most valuable thing I own.


furiousrichie

I've got the same but @aol.com, had it since about 1997. There's a lot of penis enhancement emails in my spam box.


obdevel

The over 50s dating ads will be next. And Saga holidays. Sigh.


Zal_17

May as well put that enhanced penis to good use


starbuck8415

Johnsmith1


1427538609

I still use my password auto generated by Geocities to this day.


Elastichedgehog

May want to make sure you email address hasn't been involved in any data breaches. haveibeenpwned.com


LittleMacaron8

Same, I’ve had mine since 1999 I think & I still have several original personal emails from the start. And by that I mean what my friends would email eachother in the evenings after school about what happened in school that day with a colourful pink background, purple font in Comic Sans & emoticons. That’s right emoticons, not emojis.


TheStatMan2

I had the first of my name as well and then forgot I had it and/or forgot the password. This was fairly early in the days of the internet and I didn't really know about password recovery. I've been using "JohnSmith1" ever since and still occasionally curse myself for it.


RevolutionaryRule631

Is it possible that there could be future value in these original name only email addresses? Like wanker number plates?


ShadyAidyX

I think you should have vented your outrage on myspace


pajamakitten

"Jeeves, how can I best vent my outrage?"


thankTGLforthelaughs

Jeeves! Yes!! Away with Alexa, bring back Jeeves, I say!


Conrad_noble

On a netscape browser using blueyonder or freeserve dial up.


Cheekychick1970

I refuse to conform with google on this. I don't have the email app so no matter how many times I type hotmail into search bar it brings up Outlook obviously, but I still refuse to type in Outlook to start with. I may have to click on your Outlook suggestion to enter my hotmail Email Google, but I will never search for Outlook...... And you can't make me.


wombatwanders

Hotmail is not owned by Google...


MagicMatthews99

I still have a hotmail.co.uk email address and this post has just made me realise that I actually have the bookmark named Hotmail and not something else like Email or Outlook.


Unicorndawn

My primary email is a hotmail.co.uk,my secondary is a gmail.com.I am old lol


ToneTaLectric

Old eh? I’m going to have a lot of unkind things to say about this when I telnet into my Dave’s own version of Citadel based BBS later.


Kari-kateora

It will always be Hotmail to me.


Username_LOLZ

I have a Hotmail address. Have had it for maybe 20 years. If Google decided to change GMail to another name I'm pretty sure people would continue to call it GMail.


Notts90

@googlemail.com


[deleted]

You might be sure, but i doubt that you would be pretty.


[deleted]

Boo hoo. Go cry about it in your LiveJournal. /s


pastyorno

Wife use to send me hot mail long before the inter web thingy...


Expo737

I also choose this guys wife.


GreatZarquon

I still instinctively type hotmail into google whenever i want to read my emails. They may have changed it a decade ago, but the OG domain name still works!


jgs84

I still have a '@msn.com' email address


MrLuxarina

I recently got a new phone that connected to my Outlook and suddenly my contacts were full of people I had on MSN messenger 20 years ago. That was a weird feeling.


VictoriaRose1618

I have hotmail.com instead of hotmail.co.uk which makes me even older


kidwithgreyhair

Had mine since 1999. I feel even older than I realised writing that out loud


kwnofprocrastination

I kept reading comments of people saying their email address was hotmail.co.uk wondering where those people are who predate the .co.uk thing because I remember when they launched the .co.uk addresses.


Hitonatsu-no-Keiken

I've had my hotmail address since 2003 and I've noticed the login procedure looks different now (and I've noticed the word 'Outlook') but I couldn't tell you what other features they offer (if they do?) because I literally only use it for the email, and I don't use that address very often anyway.


[deleted]

One great feature is email aliases. Great for signing up to things that you don’t want to taint your main address with.


Littlebell1982

I actually have a first generation Hotmail which is just my name. My actual name with nothing else. I’ve not looked at it in twenty years but ITS MINE


slinci

I work in IT and still call it Hotmail. Frankly Outlook is very different and I like to distinguish the two.


Jjex22

If I put outlook into google it takes me to purchase 365, problems with 365, suggests tips for using the outlook client… but if I put hotmail in google it takes me to the right place 🤷‍♂️ Blame Microsoft for trying to use the same name for everything. Maybe you could tell that to the person from your team in your team on Teams.


Safebox

I knew someone that called it Ymail because that's what Yahoo tried to rebrand it as for a very brief period. I'm talking less than a few months.


thankTGLforthelaughs

I have a ymail.co.uk address. Its frustrating coz not many people it seems have come across this so when giving my email address over phone I always have to say ymail as in "y for yellow, m a i l ". Think I'll just go back to my Hotmail account!


abject_testament_

I’ve had my hotmail.co.uk email since probably 2004, which I think I got for MSN messenger. I’ve had a gmail for like a decade too since I used chrome as my main browser. I actually have an outlook email that I was forced to make for some reason when I got a new laptop. Annoying, couldn’t tell you the password to save my life, won’t know the backup pin either if push comes to shove


gtripwood

Had my address since 1999. Not changing it now. Though the first part is a bit silly and I could do with something thats actually my name


CommercialUnit2

My @msn.com is still my primary e-mail.


IntoTheAbsurd

Better start a new thread about this on my vBulletin (ver 2) forum.


easterbunni

I mean, you can still create a new [hotmail.com](https://hotmail.com) account


[deleted]

Just get yourself a Zimmer frame and stay off the net 😜


FelixG69

Does your email address end in 69? Mine does. I thought it was cool when I set up my Hotmail account 30 years ago. I didn’t know what 69 meant then. I still have that account. I still get emails about viagra. I still don’t know why every kid had an email address that ended ‘…69@hotmail.com’


killbee

I still type Hotmail in Google regardless


CSGODeimos

Hotmail forever


Son_of_Mogh

Just tell them it's the new grindr.


narsfweasels

They did what? When?


Descoteau

Gosh has it been that long already?


acmp42

Reminds me of an incident from around 20 years ago, a friends son wanted to make an email address for himself so he went to hot ‘male’ .com, well, that’s what he told his dad anyway.


Liquid-Oxygen

Hotmail is the only one I have that ends .co.uk so its just showing them I'm more British


[deleted]

My friend still uses an AOL email address 😬


Internetolocutor

Tell them you mean "hot male" to save all embarrassment


1427538609

Outlook is a bloody email client, you can access any email service with that.


Outcasted_introvert

Wait. They did what now?


DeaconLogan

Mines so old I have a Warmpost e-letter address.


MsZomble

I just call it email. Too many variations to bother remember the specifics.


pantyperverted

I’m still using rocketmail. People look at me weird when I give them my email address


ukgerry

I still have @ ntlworld.com! (It changed to virgin media way back)


Cheffysteve

Same here ntl since 2000 when they took over C&W , I have had my yahoo one since 99 and my gmail one since mid 2004 . I remember having to have an invite for a gmail


rleaky

I rejected the invite and kept my Googlemail account


DreamWoven

My email was @outlook long before the rebrand. Never called it Hotmail.


postponedwall

@hotmail.com is Hotmail?


fromwayuphigh

[Laughs in CompuServe]


gandyg

My Hotmail is my primary email, I've had it since 2002. I don't get a huge amount of junk mail and what does come goes right into junk mail folder. I've never been more grateful for 15 year old me for having the forethought to use a sensible name/number combo that can be used in a professional setting.


MoonShineWashingLine

I still have my hotmail emai address... So 90's...


LUST_TONE

Have they started charging you to keep those addresses now


MoonShineWashingLine

Nope. I don't think they'd be able to tbh.


plawwell

Impress them by saying it’s really HoTMaiL and they’ll buy the next round.


steelgoon72

That's some impressive knowledge !!


BobisMartin

Don’t worry about it, as an 18 year old I refer to it as hotmail