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I can't be the only one that thought this was going to be RocketMail, acquired by Yahoo.

I wonder if that's where they got the name in the first place. I can't even remember my old rocketmail address anymore.

I remember mine, but Yahoo deleted my account after a short period of inactivity... I wonder if anybody still have theirs. That is one reason why I never had a Yahoo email address.

I do, and still use it, though it's mostly been overrun with spam.

prove it and send me a quick one: i12im8+msyvo9klxnkc@sharklasers.com

I remember mine but Yahoo aggressively deleted lots of those older accounts.

It’s funny this actually came up in a comment now because I saw an old ad in a magazine that used a Rocketmail address just yesterday and it brought back a flood of nostalgia.

I still technically have my rocketmail account. Try logging in with yourusername.rm

My first email address was at rocketmail.com. That and my AOL instant messenger account were how I kept in touch with friends.

This is sad and embarrassing, but whatever, someone should get a laugh from it:

My very first email was also rocketmail, set up by a friend on a school computer in highschool.

I had no clue what address to pick, so he chose one for me: studhorse69@rocketmail

I wish I was joking.

That’s a pretty good one[1] to put on resumes. Some would be amused others might auto pass on it. It’d be interesting to see how HR staff react if at all.

I’d like to think les clay pool would have taken studbullhecat@rocketmail...

[1]in an amusing way, not for reals.

Hard pass. If you aren’t smart enough to open a free email account at any other provider just for the sake of your resume then I don’t want to work with you on anything important. I don’t care what your personal email address actually is, but I have no interest in working in an office full of bros.

That said, it’s a pretty funny joke (for high school).

I loved RocketMail. Enough said.

I have a rocketmail account that I use daily.

I still own a rocketmail account.

I still have that old rocketmail account

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