Comment by smitelli

1 year ago

I would imagine a sizable portion of these old (15+ years ago) accounts are abandoned. Forgotten password, email address tied to an ISP that only serves a region where the person no longer lives, that kind of thing.

YouTube wasn’t always tied so strongly to a Google account, and overall fewer people had Google accounts in the first place.

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reddalo  1 year ago

> YouTube wasn’t always tied so strongly to a Google account

They still have a page to recover a pre-Google account. It used to be a clearly outdated page with old graphics, now they made it a bit "better".

It's here: https://www.youtube.com/gaia_link

climb_stealth  1 year ago

I wonder if that is actually tru. Because interestingly enough my youtube account is the only remaining link I have to the internet of the past. Created in 2006 and I'm still using it.

I'm not aware of anything else that has persisted since then. Old email accounts, forums, games - everything is gone now and inaccessible for me.