My Mum’s still got a Bigpond address. We’ve been trying to get her off it, which has hopefully been successful as she’s now moved and doesn’t have Telstra internet anymore. Not that Telstra want to maintain the Bigpond addresses either - it’s a legacy system they are still operating only because of old people who refuse to leave!
The other thing she did was create a joint email for her and my Dad (which I don’t think he ever would have looked at himself anyway, but his name was in the address). I guess that’s a transfer from how landlines would be for a household and not an individual and the email address was looked at the same way.
Then there’s me, with lots of email addresses for different things (especially banking and secure things, they get a unique email that is used nowhere else). Plus most business dealings I create an alias address, so if the business leaks it I can tell exactly where it came from.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I reckon it’s 100% the last one.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Boomers probably signed up with an ISP in the 90’s and are like, “this is my email now”. I still don’t understand using icloud for anything important though. You must be really confident you’re only ever going to use iPhones going forward
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My mum’s email was something like 10001442.34632@compuserve.com.au for fucking years.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Imagine getting an email from that address now and just thinking the person is spam
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
You’re spot on lol
I’d say most that are in the ios ecosystem are going to be long term.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 month ago
@bigpond