Oh snap
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You, too, are over 30. Unless you inherited a username. 
My current email address was a Geocities one that I got in college, so probably '98 or '99, and of course became a Yahoo one after they bought out Geocities. My current username was picked in '97 for use online in X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, so it’s nearing its 30th birthday.
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I have a history of migration. For compuserve we just had a number, like icq, because phone numbers, right?
I’ve had maybe a dozen different attempts to grab an online moniker but none have stuck. Always something different from college to hotmail to AIM to yucata to whatnot. My gmail is likely my oldest now and I don’t know how old that is. Acacia seems to be holding up well.
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Oh, that’s not how I thought this was counted. I thought it was current usernames, which you actually use, on the same BBS or forum. I’ve used the same username on other systems, but, e.g. gardar@hotmail.com and gardar@gmail.com are not the same username, as I understand it. If you just pick the same moniker at a different BBS, forum, server, host, etc., the oldest one you have is the oldest one of those which still works.
Otherwise, I would have a username from the early 1980s. More relevantly, the oldest one which I still have open (in the next tab), is from February 26, 2006.
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My online Moniker is older than my brother, as is my phone number
He’s 24
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My online name originated in 2000. My mobile number is from somewhere between that and 2002. I have never changed it. We still have a landline but I don’t remember the number. I have always been primarily on privately run email servers with my own domain. I have the domain since around the same time as my mobile number.
I made my first homepage at uni in 1996. I still host it somewhere on my server.
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It was mainly the fact that I’ve used Griffster77 on everything. I don’t use the chatrooms from back then anymore! The email Griffster77@hotmail.com probably still exists - I just haven’t logged in for decades!
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I had no idea last.fm was still a thing.
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I’ve been scrobbling from my PC since 2005, but the amount of music I listen to on my PC has varied a lot over the years.
At some point I started scrobbling from Spotify on my phone but then my use of Spotify really dropped off.
Last year I made an effort to scrobble everything I listened to (other than vinyl records).
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I just realized I still know my ICQ number.
My use of "pillbox” is now 25 (probably very recently 26, actually).
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I still use my Hotmail I setup in my first year of uni. I feel like having a Hotmail account will at some point give me retro cache.
My worst moniker is my psn name which I’ve used for around 15 years. I wanted philosoraptor (which is pretty meh in hindsight) - when that was taken in changing the o’s to zero’s I ended up being phil0s0aptor ( or Phil o’soaptor) and sounding like an Irish soap merchant.
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I still use an account I opened in spring 1992, on CIX, an ISP that keeps going, but doesn’t change much.
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My email address is so old that I got just lastname@provider because it was all free to have. 
And yes 113349715 is my ICQ number. What I always do is counting how many digits one’s ICQ number has to see when they joined. The guy above has 1 digit fewer than me so his account is older by some.
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I am now devastated that I do not remember, nor do I have any record of, my ICQ number.
I feel like it was 7 digits, but maybe it was 8 and I just felt superior to the 9 digit folks. I would have signed up in 1998 when doing a summer internship with my high school friends.
Is there anything today as good as ICQ was then? Just clean but customizable in all the most important ways.
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No, because you can’t turn your users into the product.
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INSIGHT. Unless you have some civic minded high schooler somewhere who just wants to make the world work.
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XMPP looks best, though there’s nothing great.
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@Acacia I can’t remember my ICQ either. I might have a record somewhere but highly unlikely
@RogerBW I used to like jabber and loved it when google talk used the same protocol until suddenly my jabber.org account could no longer communicate with Google talk users. This for me was the initial datapoint in the long list of decisions that google took that led from the cool search company to where we are today. Everyone may have a different starting point where they realized that direction, mine was the closing off of Google Talk
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Mine was the killing Google Reader. Google said RSS was dead. Now RSS feeds all the podcasts. I used Google podcast player until they killed it and forced everyone into YouTube Music, which sucks as a podcast player.
My 2 favorite things within the Google ecosystem–Maps and Docs–originated outside of Google.
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Mine was 6467413, which I took a great deal of (undeserved?) pride in having a 7-digit number.
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