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.
I have older in backups but that’s the oldest one in an IMAP folder on my server.
Sept 7, 1993. It’s a college-oriented chain email that ends with “pass the beer” that a friend who’d just gone to college sent to about 30 people, which caused ancillary reply-all conversations for the next year or so.
July 30, 2004.
An email from my dad.
I don’t delete emails unless they’re spam.
Email from my father goes to spam.
1996 if you count print copies in a binder.
September 2026, I never saw the appeal to keep everything. I have 10 emails right now. When I receive one, I act on it or store the useful part, then it goes to the trash.
I usually try to be this organised, but it’s easy to fall behind and it takes a while to sift through what’s important and what isn’t. I usually archive important emails that I need for a long time.
I’ve got nearly 3000 unread emails.
2003 or 2004, I’m not scrolling through 50k emails to check
I don’t know what provider you have, but you can usually sort by oldest or date ascending.
I logged into my old email I started using on the year Star Wars Episode 1 came out. I don’t think I’ve ever deleted mail on it, so probably from that year.
It does not seem to have a way to sort the mail by anything, so also not by date. I tried scrolling down and down and down and dow…
…but it started hogging more and more ram when I did that and around when I reached May 2023, my browser crashed. Anyway, I apparently have approximately 41 000 unread emails in that mailbox!But, I guess my oldest undeleted email is probably something about my LiveJournal account? :P
