{"id":11787,"date":"2026-04-01T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11787"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:46:48","slug":"about-that-cringe-gmail-address-you-created-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/01\/about-that-cringe-gmail-address-you-created-in-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"About that cringe gmail address you created in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/01\/technology\/gmail-change-email-address-google.html\">NYT<\/a> Users who have been saddled with now-cringe email handles since the mid-2000s can now change them without losing any data under a policy Google announced on Wednesday. There is a light at the end of the tunnel for those who thought it would be hilarious, in the mid-2000s, to make a profanity, a body part or a song lyric part of their Gmail addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google announced on Wednesday that people who set up usernames in their less-mature days that they have lived to regret now have the option to change them without losing access to their inboxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, as Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sundarpichai\/status\/2039028406226973088?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"said on X, opens in a new window\">said on X<\/a>, Gmail users could \u201c say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change comes more than two decades after the launch of Gmail, now the world\u2019s largest email platform. In that time, there has been a seismic change in the way the public interacts with the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/01\/technology\/gmail-change-email-address-google.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Users who have been saddled with now-cringe email handles since the mid-2000s can now change them without losing any data under a policy Google announced on Wednesday. There is a light at the end of the tunnel for those who thought it would be hilarious, in the mid-2000s, to make a profanity, a body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-at-20.42.51.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11789,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions\/11789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}