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halloween_spookster, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

Incredibly, some of Steam’s early adopter accounts are still actively in use today, a full two decades after their creation.

There are dozens of us!

programmer_having_errors, 2 lata temu

Probably thousands, if not more!

iesou, 2 lata temu (edited 2 lata temu)

At least

Edit: Mine turns 20 in 5 days

scottywh, 2 lata temu

Apparently I’ve got 6 more days til mine turns 20, as well.

Green_Bay_Guy, 2 lata temu

I’ve got about 8 hours, but I also live on the opposite side of the earth +12 hours, so we’ll see if it’s bound to UTC time 😂https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/39f2c801-03a2-4d5e-8b48-fec55f92f28e.png

dolle, 2 lata temu

I finally managed to find my account age. 19 years and one month! Time flies.

I had a long hiatus, but I still play FPS games regularly. And I can still join a random HL2 deathmatch and pwn :).

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

Nice. I didn’t make a Steam account until it supported Linux back in 2013 or so. So I guess I’ll be celebrating 10 years on Steam soon.

Son_of_dad, 2 lata temu do games w Ubisoft's XDefiant Delayed After Being Rejected by PlayStation and Xbox - IGN

Considering the huge lineup of unfinished, broken games, this one must be REALLY broken to get rejected.

TheMauveAvenger, 2 lata temu do games w Ubisoft's XDefiant Delayed After Being Rejected by PlayStation and Xbox - IGN

What a stupid fucking name. I realize they’re targeting 12 year olds but damn.

Kolanaki, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

One more year and my Steam account can legally drink and smoke. I’m taking it to Vegas!

delitomatoes, 2 lata temu

You can start drinking at 18

queue, 2 lata temu

In America, probably not. It’s 21 for all states due to a federal law. If a state has it lower than 21, they get way less funding for Federal high ways, as the bill was aimed to lower drunk driving.

ADHDefy, 2 lata temu do games w Ubisoft's XDefiant Delayed After Being Rejected by PlayStation and Xbox - IGN

Neat. Looking forward to it. /s

paddirn, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

Took me awhile to look it up, but just saw I’ve had my account since December 31, 2003. I’m just about at 20 years.

Supervisor194, 2 lata temu

November 16 2004 here. I was late to everything back then.

Not coincidentally, the release date for Half Life 2 was (drum roll please): November 16, 2004 lol.

SirQuackTheDuck, 2 lata temu

Mine’s 15 now, but back in the day I used those bootlegged Steam clients that allowed me to run Garry’s Mod for free. Those were the hackey, piratey times of 700MB aXXo DVD rips that took 1 hour to download.

innermeerkat, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

I remember the steam beta, allowing me to finally ditch « the all seeing eye ».

Count me in the 20s !

isVeryLoud, 2 lata temu

Haha the what now? Are you talking about the Yahoo! Software?

Kolanaki, 2 lata temu

It was basically GameSpy, but better.

GameSpy was a universal server browser.

If you ever used the server browser in Steam itself and not from the game, that’s basically what they were. An external app that you could get a list of servers for pretty much anything you added to it.

Kovu, 2 lata temu do games w Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not Expands the Critically Acclaimed Franchise - IGN

aw man i was hoping for a new game

shifty51, 2 lata temu do games w Ubisoft's XDefiant Delayed After Being Rejected by PlayStation and Xbox - IGN

Classic Ubisoft making a buggy mess of everything

Copythis, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

Mine is 18, do I get a cookie?

RiikkaTheIcePrincess, 2 lata temu

🥠Here you go! :P Look, you're two off, be glad you got anything 😅

Wait, mine's 19 and I didn't even get that D: WE DEMAND SNACKS! ✊

InEnduringGrowStrong, 2 lata temu

Up here, you can drink alcohol at 18 y.o.

sirico, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

I only signed up to play hl2 I think before that I used keys and CDs for things like ground zero

jcit878, 2 lata temu

I remember a work friend burnt HL2 on cd for me and the only way to make it work was he also gave me his steam login. and the dude had a ripper username I still remember to this day, even though I havnt seen him in nearly 20 years.

mrpoo

samus12345, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

I’m primarily a console peasant, but my Steam account goes back to 2007. I don’t remember the specifics, but I know I opened it after getting a physical copy of The Ship from Target. Never played it much, though.

Greylock, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

aw, only 19 for me!

chaogomu, 2 lata temu

Mine was 19 years, but I was military and got sent overseas for a few years. When I came back, I hadn't actually logged in for the entire time and my account had been reset.

iMastari, 2 lata temu

In November it will be 19 years for me as well.

RadButNotAChad, 2 lata temu do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

Oh man. It is year 20. I think I made my account like 6 days in. I have a 6 digit steam ID.