Hmmm. There are no "accounts" in Bitcoin.
There are (the standard interface Coinbase provides is an "account", even though they like to call their account a "wallet"), but none of the account services that exist today existed yet in 2009.
Bitcoin started in 2009, so you must mean 2009.
Were you using an online wallet service?
I can't think of any online services that existed in 2009 and are still around today. They pretty much all of them either got hacked and lost all their bitcoins to the hackers, or were scams that ran off with all the deposited bitcoins. If you were using an online service at the time, then your bitcoins are probably gone.
At the time there was only one exchange MtGox. Does that ring a bell?
MtGox didn't start handling bitcoins until July of 2010. In 2009 the URL was being used by Jed McCaleb to advertise his card game "The Far Wilds".
Were you running a bitcoin wallet on your machine?
Most of us were in 2009. In that case you need to find your "private key" or a copy of your old wallet. Nothing else will work.
I don't think MultiBit or Electrum were created before 2010. Bitcoin Core was called Bitcoin-QT back then. I can't think of any other wallets that you could run on your own computer in 2009.
Therefore, if you were running a wallet on your computer, then you need to find a file named "wallet.dat". If you don't have that file, then you probably don't have any bitcoins anymore.
I have my hard drive; don't know where to start. I thought I bought it in 2008. It was very early on when I got in it. Now, everybody seems to say it's in 2009. What were the sites where I can log on for these wallet(s)? I don't know where to find my private key. Is it provided by an email?
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