I’m 25 and have had my AOL email since before I was born, set up by my parents. In the late 90’s and early 00’s every now and then they would send a few photos to it perhaps with an accompanying story of anything that they’d want me to remember. I then used it as my main email and have continued to till this day.
During a job interview today I was told I was great fit but they weren’t sure about my email address!
Apparently they can tell a lot about a person just from the fact they have an AOL email address in 2023.
Has anyone else had something similar, is it actually a big deal?
Yahoo started in 1997, and everyone was using it by 2001.
Nobody has been using their ISP email since AOL tried that in the 90’s, especially not in 2008 like you claim. The statistics prove that incorrect, in 2006 Gmail already had 50% of the users as AOL was failing.
AOL and Hotmail are now commonly used for junk spam when a salesman asks for an email. If somebody gave me AOL or Hotmail I would consider blowing me off to a spam account.