| User name | @ | domain | Year | Why I had it | Why I lost it | Notes |
| S.Goodwin1 | | lut.ac.uk | 1991 | My beloved first address. It aliased to cosg (Computing course, Steven Goodwin) for users of the HP systems of which I was part of hpb (for students.) It was that machine that made me appreciate the beauty of Unix. My first widely available software was released using this address; the First Touch C Toolkit, although it's no longer available from the university ftp site. Yes - ftp site - as this was pre-web. YAMG was also realised using this address. | I left university. | |
| steev | | egrab.globalnet | 1994 | This was a work email shared by all of us working at Edcom, to be used to asking questions of Microsoft and other developers. However, in the spirit of stealing company resources :) much of my "VisionSoft" range of shareware (such as Sovereign Slots) used it. | I left the company. | Searching for this email still turns up a lot of software and repositories I'd forgotten about. |
| steeeeeev | | geocities.com | 1995 | This was to supplement the first web page I'd built, the page for recreational mathematics. | The site was only ever meant as a placeholder, and I'd no net access at home so it fell unused. By the time I'd remembered the password, the username had been retaken. | The overuse of "e"s was due to a university joke regarding the spelling of my name as "Steev" instead of "Steve." And the fact "Steve" had been taken. |
| goodwin_steven | | hotmail | 1996 | I got this to conduct affairs with recruitment agencies, but it became a general purpose account when I decided to give it out to industry types whenever I became embarrassed of my current employer. It has been used in that capacity many time since! | I still have this, and can remember the password. It's printed alongside all my articles. | Hotmail is still useful for any kind of plausible deniability on email; it's been hacked, corrupted, defaced, spammed, and messed up that it's not unreasonable for email to go missing without warning, or for illicit material to originate from it without myself being responsible. It also receives a lot of spam, considering it's only machine index in two different places. |
| steveg | | bitscorp.com | 1998 | My first job in London was writing PC and console games in North London, and this was my moniker. | I left the company, and no one seemed interested about forwarding emails onto me. | Only four references to this address appear in Google, which must be a record of sorts. |
| spider | | BrandNewWriters | 1999 | I founded this on-line story and poetry site in conjunction with Willesden Writers. I created the site, while they got the publicity for the their content. | Technically, I still have it, but excessive spam, and my handing over the project in 2005 mean this is dead. | I also had a separate steev account on the same system, used differently. |
| steev | | bluedust | 1999 | My first hosted web site used this contact email for those not privy to my hotmail address! | Excessive spam killed this dead. What a waste :( | |
| steev | | tuls | 2002 | My friends and I bought shares in a colo, and this was the email I got out of it. | Still actively used for various mailing lists, and email-oriented experiments since it lives on a Linux box that I have (some) control over. | |
| steev | | artworks.co.uk | 2003 | Upon joining William Latham and his merry band of developers I got this (comparatively) prodigious email address. | The company folded, and naturally, so did this email. | I still have fond memories of my time there, and had thought of buying the domain just to resurrect the address. Alas, the time has now passed. |
| steev | | dyndns | 2002 | When I finally got broadband (thanks to insistence of my gf at the time!) I used this to provide a sensible name for my machine at home. | I still have this, but with so many hardware upgrades taking place at the moment, it's never alive for very long. | This account was used to prove the "email your video" concept, and other home automation tasks. |
| steev | | mail.com | ???? | This was pure vanity, as was the associated steev@london I also got. It was fun for a while. | The joke got old. | |
| steven.goodwin | | csl | 2004 | I joined Criterion Software on the Renderware team, and this became my latest account. | EA took over, and changed the name. | |
| steven.goodwin | | europe.ea.com | 2004 | After the take-over, EA gave me this (ugly) looking address. It also prevented my from working anywhere outside of Europe! | Left the company. | |
| steven.goodwin | | gmail | 2004 | Everyone was getting one - so why shouldn't I! Only used for a select few people. | Still use, but rarely. | |
| ???? | | glu | 2005 | My internal company email. This is easy to filter spam from, since it's only used internally and for a couple of time critical mailing and announce lists. | I still have this | As I write this I genuinely do not know the format of my email name, as it differs from my login, and I've never had to give out my work address! |
| ???? | | alten8.co.uk | 2008-2009 | Another internal company email. | Gone with the company | |
| ???? | | playfish.com | 2009 | I joined Playfish before the EA take-over, so halfway through my employ this was supplemented by an EA alias. It was the second time in my career I've been acquired by EA, and the second time I got an email. | This was original administered with Googlemail. | |
| ???? | | futurecontent.com | 2010 | The start-up for whom I currently work. | This is original administered with Googlemail. | |
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