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Nov 2003
From 2011 a comic strip emailed to me by a friend.
If I exclude SMART status reports then the oldest one is from 2023-08-21 and is sitting in the trash. If I exclude trash then 2025-07-30 from my mom.
I usually deal with emails immediatelly and then delete them completely (not sending them to a trash).
First week of May, 1990. Welcome email to my first job on a university campus. I exported to an mbox file and can still access with Thunderbird. I have every email since. It’s… a lot.
When you realise this is a recovery question to your email account 👀
9/27/2004
I had email going back to at least 1996 if not earlier, but my computer was stolen in 2004 during a move, and that was before the big switch from POP3 to IMAP.
I’ve got one from Thu, 10 Mar 1994, but it’s boring and this one stands out more:
On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Dolphin Satan wrote:
I can’t fuckin see your page man!You need to get rid of that white font.
Fuck you. Get some fucking glasses.
Original welcome email on my Gmail October 2005.
Subject was “Gmail is different. Here’s what you need to know.”
The earliest message I have accessible in Thunderbird is from the 25th of May, 2001. It’s part of a conversation with old work colleagues who I had remained drinking buddies with when I started a new job nearby. (There are actually two messages with earlier dates, but one is an imported message from March of 2001 that wasn’t actually sent or originally received by me, and another that’s an old Usenet post, probably also imported, that doesn’t have a datestamp at all, registering as 1/1/1970.)
If I go digging around in my university backup, I have messages from 1998 in there. I would have earlier e-mails, but quota was limited on the University systems, so I expect I deleted everything at the start of every year.
Probably some mail from 95. I never delete anything.
July 30, 2004.
An email from my dad.
I don’t delete emails unless they’re spam.
Email from my father goes to spam.
The duality of man.
1996 if you count print copies in a binder.
LOL
Can’t access my old Yahoo account, so the oldest is Feb 15, 2007 signing up for StumbleUpon
August 30th 2004. It’s the welcome email from when I signed up for the Gmail beta(!) way back when. Unfortunately my first e-mail address and inbox hasn’t made it. It was a proprietary webmail from my ISP, so I couldn’t transfer it to Gmail.
