Talking of OG, that Gmail account... looks rare.

Username is barneygale. You do the parsing.

I'm not clear what you are trying to hint towards. With your comment I figured he would be a Google developer or a long-time dev (hence likely to be exposed to Gmail early on to snatch first.last), but from what I see he was a few years away from starting college or his Github when it launched. I'm afraid that I am missing your point.

There's was a method of email obfuscation here. It's not literally [email protected] . That's just a template.

Ohhh.. speak of looking at the finger rather than the moon. That makes a lot more sense, thank you. For my defense I never came across it yet, IIRC, but I'm not sure it excuses it.