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I have 19 years of service after joining in dec 2003.

Happy Birthday Steam!

Keep up the great work for linux gaming!

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For me, joining the Steam coincided with the start of my adult life - I started uni in 2007, exactly when Orange Box and Witcher 1 were released. After careful deliberation on what to spend my first student stipend on, I went with Orange Box. The 16 years since then Steam didn't let me down, I can't imagine Steam disappearing in another 20 years.

Ah The Orange Box - probably one of the best gaming purchases I ever made.

Bought just so I could play Portal, then ended up trying this random game I'd never heard of called Team Fortress 2 - and happily losing over 1500 hours of my life to it. Eventually called it a day when the loot crates and cosmetics got too out of hand.

I was "cyberathlete" competing in counterstrike 1.5 and if i recall correctly counterstrike 1.6 was steam exclusive so I joined steam rather quickly.

Kind of wish I could change my login/email as I havent used said yahoo account in decades.

Valve released the server binary one day before the client launch, and you could use that to register with steam. I knew someone with a two digit steam id from that.

You should be able to.

You can change the contact email associated with the account (where correspondance goes), but I'm pretty sure you can't change the email address that was initially used to register the account. You can set a public-facing display-name, so in practice it's only used as a login username, but it also shows up in the UI in a few places.

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