What is the first message in your inbox?

Message Bookmarked

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That is, if you keep emails from long times ago for various reasons of nostalgia or otherwise...

In my primary account, mine is a message from The Channel Six dated December 2000, talking about a gig that our bands were going to play together. Ollie later told me it was the first email he'd ever written, so I thought I should save it. It also contained both his and Dan's phone numbers (For phones neither of them have any more) which was clearly v. important to me at the time.

What's the oldest email you've saved and why did you save it?

― kate, Sunday, 19 January 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I the only weirdo around here that keeps old emails?

Why do my new threads always languish?

― kate, Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The first one in my outlook is from mark s! (from last April)...I've never deleted any of my messages in outlook, as I've only had this computer 8 months.

Just checked my hotmail, and it's July 11th 1997 from my mum, as I probably asked her write me to see if my email address worked!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The first two messages in my hotmail inbox are dated 21st May 2098, and 15th May 2098.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It's from halloween 2000, from my friend John in Los Angeles.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

The oldest one in mine is from Otis Wheeler, over a year ago, we were fighting.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear. Mine's from 1994, from somebody offering to make me a tape of a Sebadoh show.

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha... Douglas, that's not from me, is it?

I have a few different email accounts, hence different inboxes, so I'll just go with the oldest (in a folder named simply "inbox-old"):

A message from an old boss dated Jan 25, 1995, asking me when I was going to set up a Pop Culture forum on the ISP/online service we worked for.

― Jen (nstop), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It's from Dec. 2, 2000, from a girl in Texas (the one whose misspelling is my e-mail address). Just a "hello how's life" type e-mail.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

haha wtf

"Hi cute austrailian accent girl! I just wanted to say hi and it was fun
chatting. I hope to see you soon. and i hope you had a good night! take care
wingatefb20"

― minna (minna), Monday, 20 January 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

the first e-mail I ever got from my was-soon-to-be-and-still-is girlfriend, making fun of this article. "Socially alert student poet unimpressed by conformity" which ran in the Penn State Daily Collegeian and I swear to fuckin' christ isn't an onion article IT'S FOR REAL.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2001/02/02-16-01tdc/02-16-01darts-4.asp

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 20 January 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope, Jen, not you, I'm afraid--it's Christine Sievanen. I just googled her, and she seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. Ditto, actually, for the next person in my inbox, Halle Winkler...

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 20 January 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

oldest is from jan 2001 - a photo album link from a friend. second oldest is an invitation to m*ya r*dolph's birthday party!! not that she actually wanted me to come or would remember who i am

― ron (ron), Monday, 20 January 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"CURTIS We Want Your Skin!!!!!!!" from "Ageless Skin Care"

It was scarie o.O

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 20 January 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Before I switched everything over to IMAP-based email accounts I archived stuff into FileMaker. Earliest email in there is from January 1994 from Chelsea Starr asking me when I'm going to come up to BOMP to pick up a Spacemen 3 poster...

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

mine (it's not too old):

"dear band.

if you've not heard -- paul is going off to WAR! yes -- WAR! josh -- your problems are solved (and you can probably keep that keyboard!)!!!

i guess we'll practice sunday, as usual -- VERY IMPORTANT PRACTICE this one. khyber show coming-up... (sounds like we're planning to practice before that show, too, right?).

my copy of arab on radar's soak the saddle (vinyl!) arrived today -- its one of the best things i've EVER heard EVER!

later."

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

My machines always tend to die and take the emails with them so I never get a chance to get attached (ho ho) to my emails. The earliest email on my current machine is from a friend of mine suggesting two rules for making a compilation for girl I had a crush on:

Rule 1: no Ornette Colman
Rule 2: avoid songs like 'Every Breath You Take' which might imply scary stalking style situations.

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

March 2000 a guy saying "Sorry to see you go" when I was leaving a job.

― toraneko (toraneko), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is from August 1999, entitled "Niihao from Shanghai!". My best friend from university was travelling back from Japan landwards, and was asking if I wanted anything from Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, Tibet, Jordan or Israel. I got a tiny kite and a pornographic comic book, and so did all my friends.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

on the account this address forwards to i have saved 1392 emails since feb.

the first of these seems to be from L in Mcr on 7th Feb 2002, we were talking about Risky Business, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Kate Bush and Brett Anderson.

before that this address forwarded to hotmail. they deleted them all though.

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I have like every one I've got ever, but the first one in my online mailbox is from Suzy re: Picnic in the Sky.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha it is a forward from NED of 101 Rules of Black Metal!

Then it is my monkey friend Pip, then Carsmiles "i'm leaving ruskin" email (!) then my punk rock friend Joss then Michelle who I love and then Emma saying happy birthday and then me emailing myself the release date of Queen of the Dammed on DVD hahah.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Somewhere on my computer at home I have an archive of all of the mail I received at my first job out of college dating back to 1996.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha it is a forward from NED of 101 Rules of Black Metal!

! Astounding!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

What is in your PRIORITY inbox?

― Death Cabron For Cutie (admrl), Monday, 20 December 2010 03:59 (fifteen years ago)

mail from His Ham lol

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:30 (fifteen years ago)

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