Any other old geezers like me still have and use a @mac.com account?

[motm95]

I posted this as part of a reply in another thread:

I created an old @mac.com account as part of iTools in the early 2000's that my wife and I still use today as our shared family account for iTunes and app purchases etc. I just realized that account is almost 20 years old now. Wow.

Who else? Hands up.

 

[Release]

Yup

 

[mikzn]

LOL - My Mac ID uses it - still have the original iPod and and G3 Lombardi lap top (all great products - back in the day)

Once in a while I boot the G3 and run Sound Jam and am amazed at how good it was ?

 

[techwarrior]

Nope, but .me here.

 

[AZhappyjack]

I have one... fro some reason the email doesn't work... but it is still a valid iTunes/iCloud account.

 

[zinacef]

Don't have an at mac but an at me.

 

[wellander1]

Still use mine as my main e-mail that I give out. Love having it. One of the few Jobs era things still around today.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

No, but I am certain that I have signed up for and abandoned every single Apple cloud service until iCloud.

Each time was a trial, each time I let my subscription expire because it was a poor value.

Even iCloud is aware of this. I tried to turn on iCloud mail and pick an old handle but iCloud wouldn't let me even though I had signed up with the same handle for @mobileme, @me, @Mac, @icloud.

 

[TheIntruder]

Yep, it's still my primary personal email address. Also have a Gmail account from the invitation beta period.

 

[lostom]

Yep, but I do use my @me as my primary account these, the kids in the apple store are often surprised at that, when I tell them about @Mac they are shocked.

 

[robbieduncan]

I still have @Mac and @me accounts. Some older stuff is using the @Mac account

 

[tucogovinda]

Still proudly rocking my mac dot com email address, too!

 

[Clix Pix]

Same here, using my dot Mac email happily and proudly, and also am one who was in on the initial invitation for Gmail so was able to score exactly the email name I wanted to use there, too! Love my dot Mac account, always have. At first I reserved it only for Apple and Mac-related stuff, but eventually found myself using it more and more for personal email, and I still do, although I also have an email account related to my ISP.

 

[Nütztjanix]

Yep. Started as @mac.com, gained @me.com and @icloud.com over the years. I now can choose from these three versions to my liking and mood ?

 

[tagumcity]

yes

 

[markhort]

I'm gutted I lost my @Mac account, still have use my @me.com account and I have a couple of alias for spam or signups.

 

[kamikazeeMC]

Not a geezer haha, but got mine towards the end with a 2008 Macbook purchase. Only kept it associated with Apple stuff, didn't want to add random stuff even though I have a burner email. Managed to get a clean/short address.

 

[Brenster]

Still using my @mac.com email here as my primary account/address. Goes back all the way to buying .mac family pack along with Mac OS X Tiger for my eMac G4 in 2005. Kept it all the way through MobileMe and into the iCloud era.

 

[cdcastillo]

I posted this as part of a reply in another thread:

I created an old @mac.com account as part of iTools in the early 2000's that my wife and I still use today as our shared family account for iTunes and app purchases etc. I just realized that account is almost 20 years old now. Wow.

Who else? Hands up.

Another old geezer here. I have one from about 18 years ago. It is still my Apple ID.

 

[Guppy Guy]

I still have my @me address, for both my everyday (including work) and personal accounts (just one account each). I also have my @Mac address from the .Mac days; I mostly use this account for my forums and such plus as a backup.

I had setup the email account that is currently being used as a ”backup” first as my primary for a few years, but then I set up another that was my first/last name combo and have used that for many years now as my primary go-to email account... unfortunately, the other email address is an abbreviation of my name and therefore I didn’t like it as much as the full name email address. So now, I use the full email address as my everyday go-to for work and daily communications as this is the email address that I typically give out to those that I feel safe with, otherwise they get an email alias tied to that account that I also set up years ago.

The @Mac account is still a viable email for me though as I use it regularly and have the required email address used to set up my ISP forwarded to it, etc. This way if anything happens to one of them, I still have a way to get an email in or out for anything important (if it cannot wait a few hours for the service to come back online), otherwise it is filtered for Spam and kept under control as not to waste excessive data resources, etc.

 

[Böhme417]

I'm not an old geezer, but yes. I stopped giving that address out as soon as @me came about, because people always asked if I worked at Apple. I guess so few people had them that they couldn't be blamed for their ignorance. Now, no one even knows what @me is. I still use that as opposed to @icloud for that reason.

 

[yass31]

Still have my @Mac and @me addresses

 

[xp84]

I signed up for mine in high school when it was called iTools and free but strictly limited to signing up on a Mac (I didn't have a Mac because I couldn't afford it, but the school library did! I think I signed up using MSIE 4.5!)

Then they started charging money so I lost it. They let you keep using the Apple ID that was tied to it, though, in case you had things associated with the Apple account and also because it was a built-in AIM screen name (due to iChat).

I just checked and I still have access to it even though the email address is unusable it's still a valid Apple ID. I went to icloud.com to check it out. It is the world's weirdest iCloud account: it can have Contacts and iCloud Drive (1GB!! storage is offered), but there's no option at all to use or to activate Mail.

Anyway I did sign up again for a trial in the MobileMe days, using a different username, and though I think I refused to pay at the end of the trial, they did later let me reactivate that account for iCloud at least, so I have a @me and @icloud address in my primary Apple ID.

 

[ascender]

Yip, my wife and I both still have mac.com email addresses as well as a family one.