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It's not an achievement, but this is pretty rare
21 here, I too am old as hell
Just hit 22 this month.
This was my senior year of college. I would stay up all night playing Counterstrike and Day of Defeat.
Hell yeah, brother
I don't meet many people like you anymore.
Shit, 17 days apart lol. Did you also get a copy of Half-Life 2 for Christmas?
I think I bought the Orange Box? Or HL2 for myself.
damn, y'all, how big were the dinos back then ?
Big enough to screw up the platters on my hard drive when they stomped by!
You had to walk into the computer to catch the bugs.
'cause we're dying of old age? :P
Oh hey
Wait for me!!
Twinsies!
Ah, not quite as long as I’d thought
21-ers unite!
Soon
Twins! I suspect we both bought cszero at the same time
Golden oldie checking in
Had to look it up, you got Steam 4 days after it went live!
I was busy the day they went live.
I remember watching in amusement as my housemate was extremely angry that day and thought "this thing is not going to catch on".
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!
I'm just 4 days after you. What's up, fellow old person?
I only have 16 years, Finally I feel young again!
Slowness to adopt new technologies is a sign of old age 😁
Or that we were children with gameboys
Get off my lawn, damn whipper snappers!
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!
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
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
I was working a double shift on the day it was released so didn't get it until the day after.
Hello, fellow eldritch being!
Fellow 22 checking in.
Funny to see so many other people all starting at the same time.
It's right around the time steam went live to the world
Can't figure out how to post an image, but I have you beat by less than 24 hours! (September 15th, 2003)
adjusts glasses and knees pop
Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a 4 digit account?
Mine was a 5 digit the evening of release, gotta be pretty early to get a 4 digit
And I thought my 17 years were long xD
Old Timers Club!!