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"Only" 12 years here.
I hit 16 a few months ago.
Orange box homies say whatsup.
Yes! I spent entirely too much time in TF2 and Gmod.
Haha yup. I bought it for half life, but figured i would play the other games first. Portal was amazing, so I gave TF2 a shot next.
I didn't play half life for like 2 years.
Hitting 20 in 5 hours... ;)
I am at 16 as well. I feel so old now lol
Only 18 here.
Same here. I created my account after getting Half-Life 2 for Christmas. Hard to believe that came out in Nov 2004.
15 here.
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.
One more year and my Steam account can legally drink and smoke. I'm taking it to Vegas!
You can start drinking at 18
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.
I think I made mine in 2009 for some sweet sweet TF2.
The orange box was such a good deal
I remember how much everyone hated steam at first. The WON was fine why ruin it with this stupid steam thing?
11/22/2004 reporting in. Just currently 18 almost 19. I do not have a short steam ID though. Can’t remember which game was the first but pretty sure it was either half-life or HL2
Member since 24 July 2004 here. Doesn't feel like 20 years, but it's also hard to imagine having ~5Tb of installed games across multiple launchers just... available. Plus emulators and other resources. Steam was a pain in the arse at first, but they made it work, and they saw beyond the limitations of dialup tech. I was all for it at the time because I had one of the few Coax connections (NTL at the time, later taken over by Virgin Media) which at that point I believe was 10Mbit... Of course, nowadays we have Gigabit FTTP rolling out throughout the UK, so this seems really quaint, but it's pleasing to see how far we've come.
The US coverage still sucks. Sort your shit out guys, you're 20 years behind the UK, and we're a good 10 behind Norway, Hong Kong and others thanks to Twatcher.
I'm always shocked at how behind the US is in some areas of tech despite having so many of the big tech companies located there. Like you say their internet coverage and terms of packages, like still having data limits in 2023. Also the fact that they still sign for card payments in shops, when we've been though both chip and pin and contactless since that method was common.
Yeah - I don't even cary cards with me any more, it's all on my phone. Including many store cards (Coop, Texaco, Shell, McDonalds...) which automatically pick up without me doing much - I scan, it works.
The only thing I can think is that the US is such a fractured environment with Federal, State and Local government, each with different jurisdictions, rules and taxation, that trying to get it to work would be beurocratically difficult. But at the same time, it's so ruled by corporations that surely they'd want to push the easiest way - flip your phone out and wave it to pay, easy and secure, so make it happen :D
Before steamid there was wonid. OGs know.
I for some reason take great pride in having a low numbered steamid.
I robbed my self of that ability accidentally, because I preferred cs 1.3/4/5 and it was won only, so I actively avoided 1.6 like the plague and with it steam. Then halflife 2 came out and I bit the bullet.
I'm like 3120 or something to sign up. That day was a complete mess as everyone signing up and trying to download their games DDoSed the platform. At that time Steam was just a client to download and play Valve games.
I was younger then and had my own domain thinking I was cool but it is actually shit and uses leet speak. I'm stuck with that forever now as my account name. Sigh.
I remember connecting with WON before steam, nostalgia CS days
Damn, 16 here
18 as well.
wish i could hide badges.... the CS 10 year veteran badge makes it really shameful to play CS... because I never play CS, I just own it.
I too bought CS:S so I could use the assets in Garry's Mod.
You have to choose to display them to begin with... You mean they won't let you choose not to afterwards?
aw, only 19 for me!
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.