O/T: My Gmail account was compromised today...

[Wite3]

As a matter of fact there was...I bought my first IBM PC in Dec of 1985. A year later I bought an add on modem. The modem came with a program that I think I beta tested in the winter of 1986 or spring of 1987 called Promenade. It was windows based and was the precursor to America Online and only available to IBM users. I chose my first email address for this as my current email beginning + the @promenade.com extension. When several services were combined around 1989 into AOL, they changed my screenname to the @aol.com extension. I have had it ever since. So not quite 25 years but certainly 22 or 23. If you really want, I have actual emails from back then printed on hard and I can check the dates. And this week was the first time I have ever had it hacked...reset my password and made it much more difficult. Hopefully, won't happen again until the year 2035 or so.

Joshua