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Uuuugh.

I was a student at Linköping Institute of Technology at Linköping University. We received an email address with five letters from your first and last name, then three digits, at a liu.se subdomain depending on the student section your program was under. After graduation or drop-out you'd lose your account. That's fair, and we knew the deal.

My friend went to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. They had a much sweeter deal. You could pick your user name yourself, and you had an @kth.se email address for LIFE. Very cool.

That is, until my friend received an email from noreply@kth.se just now, 20 years later, saying hey you have an email account here but you're not faculty or student, so we'll disable it in November.

WHAT.

Can you imagine how many places a person has been using their email address when they've had it for 20 years??

Not cool, KTH. Not cool.