On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
replying to william degnan
Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club Anyone still operating actively an email address from before 1995
I have been jeffj/at/panix/dot/com since 1991. I know the fellow with a slightly lower UID but he's not a VCF member.
Before that, my emails were via my employer, but as a consultant I quickly realized the merit of an email that I could keep independent of my employer or client. I had email via Genie, Delphi, Prodigy but never Compuserve or AOL.
Before it was PANIX, there was Big Electric Cat. A friend used that to access USENET before the Internet, back when most systems were "walled gardens".
-- jeffj
I think Jeff wins! 1991