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JeremyBanks on July 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub

Hotmail/Outlook used to(?) do this as well.

I had an account expire ~10 years ago. Somebody else registered the address and used it for several years, then eventually let it expire as well. Last year, I re-registered it, and used it to recover access to an account I created a long long time ago.

homero on July 23, 2016 [–]

I'm still trying to recover my neopets account from 15 years ago, I used a bad birthdate

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