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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 63 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

It's not an achievement, but this is pretty rare

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[–] Xilence@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I don't meet many people like you anymore.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

damn, y'all, how big were the dinos back then ?

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 weeks ago

Big enough to screw up the platters on my hard drive when they stomped by!

[–] Xilence@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

You had to walk into the computer to catch the bugs.

[–] subOrange@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, not quite as long as I’d thought

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago
[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

'cause we're dying of old age? :P

[–] plateee@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Twins! I suspect we both bought cszero at the same time

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

21 years service Steam

Golden oldie checking in

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Shit, 17 days apart lol. Did you also get a copy of Half-Life 2 for Christmas?

[–] Xilence@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think I bought the Orange Box? Or HL2 for myself.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I only have 16 years, Finally I feel young again!

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Slowness to adopt new technologies is a sign of old age 😁

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Get off my lawn, damn whipper snappers!

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or that we were children with gameboys

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was very anti steam when it first came around and only got an account once CS forced me to to continue to play. My join date is the beginning of 05 so you must have been a super early adopter!

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ha, this is almost my story too. Hadn't played CS prior though, I got enticed in by CS:S and bought Half Life 2 and Steam just for that.

I started out on CS 1.3 and Day of Defeat, I played source a lot too but then after that lost a lot of interest in it. I tried playing CS: Go for a while but it was never the same as those early days in LAN cafes and on shitty slow internet :D

[–] tryitout@infosec.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Had to look it up, you got Steam 4 days after it went live!

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was busy the day they went live.

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[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember watching in amusement as my housemate was extremely angry that day and thought "this thing is not going to catch on".

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

My roommate was super excited and kept calling me at work to let me know how rough the launch was going with the servers having trouble!

I was a bit skeptical that it would last more than a few years before it would be a subscription model just to use it because of networking and infrastructure costs. So glad it has turned out the way that it has!

[–] will@piefed.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You guys were just a few days too late... I remember wanting to stay up to make my account, but I had school the next morning so I did it when I woke up

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I was working a double shift on the day it was released so didn't get it until the day after.

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[–] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

22 Years of Steam

Fellow 22 checking in.

[–] bitwise@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hello, fellow eldritch being!

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny to see so many other people all starting at the same time.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's right around the time steam went live to the world

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

adjusts glasses and knees pop

Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a 4 digit account?

[–] will@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Mine was a 5 digit the evening of release, gotta be pretty early to get a 4 digit

[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hell yeah, brother

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

And I thought my 17 years were long xD

[–] Car@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Can't figure out how to post an image, but I have you beat by less than 24 hours! (September 15th, 2003)

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just hit 22 this month.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Old Timers Club!!

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

This was my senior year of college. I would stay up all night playing Counterstrike and Day of Defeat.