What is the oldest text/email you still have on your phone/computer? (software, folder)

[hbk4894]

bought my current phone in December 2013 , and the earliest text i can find still on there is from feb 25 2014

[Ghengis]

I have one from Al Gore from 1986 in which he says; "hellooooooo, is anyone else out there?"

I blocked him but kept the e-mail

[swagger]

In my mailbox, Feb 2007 is the oldest one.

I have archives that go back to the '90s.

[Dude111]

I dont have any as I use webmail......

But In one of my webmail accounts I have a message in my DRAFTS folder from 21/2/2007.. (It has an EXE attachment I wanted to save in case I ever wanted to use the program.. (extractnow.exe))

Ah man!!

[Count David]

I still have my old AOL email addresses (don't use them though) that contain emails from 1997.

[old_cold]

You got me curious and now I'm more so. Even though I've had one still used web-based AOL address since 1998, the oldest mails showing are only from 2008 on.

[harry chickpea]

On this one, I only go back to 2000. I have archives that go back to the mid-1980s. Having documentation of instructions and agreements has saved me more than once. When communicating with a customer about software issues, I've found that I can often cut-n-paste a response I've made for use by another customer, or in some cases just send them the same email when they AGAIN make the same screw-up.

[jtur88]

I still have some old text documents that were last modified in May, 1997, which were created on a 286.

Any email addresses I had that early on are now defunct.

The oldest sent message saved in my oldest still-active email account is dated 7-21-06.

[CSD610]

I have a copy of an email I got from a friend in 1996, the very first email I ever got.
Technically it is not on the computer but it is from the computer.
Currently I have no idea how old the oldest email I still have is.

[Jaggy001]

Just checked ........

10/05/05