It's happened to all of us

^-----(I know the feeling)

I regret it every time, yet, every attempt at using a new one ends in failure when I forget about it.

I was actually really lucky. My older brother told me to get a gmail account of just my name when gmail first came out and you actually had to be invited to use it because according to him "it is going to be the most kickass email system in the future".

I was like 15 at the time so I didn't use email at all or give the slightest fuck (plus I already had a yahoo email account of my name) but I went ahead and registered the account. I didn't use email until college and then only used my school email address so this gmail account sat unused for like 7 years. When I got out of school and didn't want to keep using my college email I remembered it and sure enough I was able to remember the password to get in and everything. So now I have a badass gmail account that is just my first and last name @gmail.com which is impossible to come by these days.

U jelly ;-)

Very much actually. You bastard.

Buahahaha!

i am able to use my first and last name on google as well i guess im a bad ass...my name is johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt@gmail.com hmu

Nooo there can only be one!

I call bullshit as Google deletes Gmail accounts if they haven't been logged into in nine months.

Really? This must be a rather new procedure.

Alternatively, maybe I just happened to log into it once a year or so and by luck it was often enough for them to not blast it.

Regardless, I didn't actively use it until recently.

Nope, it's an old policy. See the last sentence of this page. https://mail.google.com/mail/help/program_policies.html

Ether way, if you are serious you are one lucky bastard. I'd love to get firstname.lastname@ but missed out because I got an invite too late.

"Google may terminate your account in accordance with the terms of service if you fail to login to your account for a period of nine months."

I bet what happens is they keep you account unless someone else tries to register it and if you have been inactive they hand it over to the new person.

Who knows...

that's not remotely true. I have two gmail accounts and one sat well over a year unused until about a month ago.