The End of an Era

[ladysprite]

It's finally happened. After ten years of having the same email address, hotblack is finally going away. I'm not quite sure how to handle this.

I know people tend to change addresses fairly frequently, but I never have. I settled into this account when I was still an undergrad, and I've been there ever since. I have messages saved here from before my sweetie and I started dating eight years ago, and probably chronicling the majority of our relationship. I have the security of knowing that friends who haven't seen me since 1995 still know where and how to get in touch with me. And now it's going.

I suppose this is good practice for changing my name next fall - I know it's harmless, but I feel like I'm losing a piece of my identity. Anyway, I'm going to put the new address in a friends-locked entry after this; if you can't see it and still want the new contact info, reply here and I'll pass it on....

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Actually, at some point we will make the old address point to the new place...

We control the domain. This gives us many powers.

[dalbino83.livejournal.com]

I hated giving up my old email address when the domain was sold to a new owner and the new owner just wanted to kill the old domain name. Like you, I had it for 10 years. They did offer email forwarding for a while (like, 2 years), and by the end of those two years all I was getting at the old address was spam. I hope you'll get forwarding.

But I really hated going to all the websites I had registered at, and changing my account info; good luck with all that!

[claire.livejournal.com]

;) I've had my email address for 5 years and I hated having to change it before then, but as my Uni account was going away, I had to.

I recently bought a new mobile phone and had to swap my phone number into a new SIM card. Surprised the heck out of the people at the store that I'd had the same phone number for the last 4 years - apparently they're used to people switching them all the time.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. I've had my account since '89 or '90, and would hate to have to change it. Hope you can somehow download and save the messages you have stored there.