Before steamid there was wonid. OGs know.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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My account is @hotmail.com. I'm not sure I'm in this wave, but it must be a few weeks till I hit it.
Mine is @yahoo, really wish I could change it.
If you still have access to the original email address you can definitely change it.
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Mines a domain I used to have thinking I was cool. I was not...
@irtehwin.com
Mine too, I hit 20 years this week 🥳
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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.
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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
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.
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18 as well.