One of my customers, a few years ago.
The interwebs were a fairly new experience, and people were suddenly getting email addresses. One of our regulars - let's call him Frank Lawrence from Honeywell - phoned me for a quote, and proudly told me I could email him the quote.

"What's your email address?" I asked.
"Ooh, hang on a minute, I can't remember!" replied Frank. "I know it, I've been telling people all morning. D'oh, what is it? Oh, hang on a minute, I'll ask Dave. Dave, what's my email address?"

A moment later he came back with "Oh yeah. It's [email protected]"
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 14:39, 38 replies)

Fuck me, that's a dull story O_o

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 14:39, closed)

I wouldn't worry too much.
One of The Miseries was promising to share the minutes of a town council meeting earlier. You're still in the amateur leagues of dullness.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:39, closed)

Your not going to let this happen on your watch are you?

(Brigadier an old boot sitting on a man's face - forever, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:46, closed)

STONYBRIDGE!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:58, closed)

Famous for its....
(the_icks has the sweet essence of giraffe, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 10:01, closed)

It's vi-day-oh!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 11:06, closed)

I like how you think about me
when I'm not there.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 23 Mar 2013, 22:29, closed)

I've got that beat. My first email address didn't have an @ I think it was a colon instead, but I can't really remember.
True Story
(Brigadier an old boot sitting on a man's face - forever, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:40, closed)

All the cool kids used UUCP mail with a 'bang' in the middle.
Leading to such hilarity as naming a computer "gonna" so that all the mail was of the form gonna!username which is pronounced "gonna bang username". Which is HILARIOUS.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Computer nerds are HILARIOUS.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:44, closed)

Gonna bang colon?

( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:21, closed)

I reckon if I contrived a "joke" about how colon and bang work and interact in bash scripts I would definitely win the dullness award.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:29, closed)

I'd definitely fork your repository

( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:41, closed)

I remember...
Early days with the internet, it was all like learning a new language, so I kind of (not a lot though) understand where the OP was coming from...
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 21:04, closed)

Sexist pig!!!!!!!
I'M GOING TO TAKE YOUR PHOTO AND GET YOU FIRED111!!!!!!11!!!!11!!!
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 20:16, closed)

When email addresses were introduced to our company, the less than socially aware IT dude made mine [email protected] as a joke. It was changed pretty quickly after I emailed the MD with a query. Pity I never emailed a client.
( Ken Oath, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 15:10, closed)

Hahaha, that deserves its own post :)

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 15:16, closed)

For a couple of years there was a free remailer called fuckshitwank.com and I had the email address: [email protected]
Not much use though as it almost never made it through anyone's spam filter!
( da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:29, closed)

qu.im was available until recently
I tried to buy it but the registrars for .im wanted something like £2000 for a two-letter domain.

It's not available any more (it was pointing to a wine company for a while, which was strange).
( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:36, closed)

if you register a domain in the cook islands you will have the extension .co.ck
japes abound!
( sneep used to date Freddie Starr's hamster, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 10:28, closed)

Sugarape.co.ck?
Shirley?
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 16:35, closed)

Totally Mexico, yeah?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 17:46, closed)

I received a job application for a reasonably high-level technical role a few years back
with the contact address something like [email protected]

I mean fucking hell. Hotmail.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 18:40, closed)

I looked at a recruitment website the other day
They suggested using gmail.com "for a more professional image". Why not just say "insert the line 'sent on my iPad' as your signature in every email. That'll show potential recruiters how up-to-date you are"?
( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:16, closed)

This is why all people who work for recruitment firms should be ground down and used as fertiliser.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:17, closed)

Can I
click "like" for a reply? All that bullshit, used in the carbon cycle... I'd buy it!
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 21:03, closed)

I prefer jewishmail.com for that purpose.
( Ken Oath, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:52, closed)

not all systems for allocating names are that predictable...
Ford (and therefore Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin who they owned at the time) make what's called your CDS ID, which is your first initial and the rest of your surname up to a maximum of 7 letters. This made a Mr John Smith [email protected]. The next John smith who joined was JSMITH1, 10 more John Smiths later would be JSMIT11. Fine and sensible.

Except if you're the innocently named Thomas Watt, CDSID became [email protected], and Keith Nickerson became [email protected] (first names changed to protect the innocent)
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sun 24 Mar 2013, 15:48, closed)

[email protected]
That's Gold. I'd be proud of that email.
( Ken Oath, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 16:29, closed)

^ this
:)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 20:03, closed)

My workplace used that system
I knew someone with a name like Alex Froman.
( the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 5:29, closed)

Did he get high?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 9:43, closed)

I had to use google to understand that joke
I've got some serious brain fade of my own going on.
( the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 16:19, closed)

*whistles briefly*
wouldn't KNICKERS be 8 characters not 7?

*wanders off, looking innocent, pretending to look at the pretty flowers*

You'd be in right trouble if you were called Christopher Untpieter. Just sayin.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 9:43, closed)

Or Charles Ocksucker
or Michael O'Therfocker

etc :D
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 16:50, closed)

We had a similar system at work
Which meant that Chris Thomasson got to send emails from "[email protected]"
(richardm, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 16:01, closed)

I've worked with some people at Honeywell recently
I can second their general fuckwittery. It's odd how a company that makes quite up to date components and products, yet they are completely incapable of ordering their own products to be used in their own premises even when they have over 3 months notice.
( Nuisance Value, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 20:19, closed)

I didn't word it very well, but Honeywell was a "for instance"...
The guy's email address was [email protected] and it was as easy to remember as Honeywell, but it wasn't Honeywell.

...although we did deal with them too, and oddly enough you're not wrong :)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 23:34, closed)

I had a contact [email protected],uk
Even better, Beaverwood is a girls' school!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 11:53, closed)