Such a unique atmosphere it was. Back when the internet was becoming more widespread but the centralization of power had not yet taken place. Tens of thousands of individual community cultures were flourishing everywhere like islands spread across a vast ocean. It's so hard to describe this time period to people who haven't lived through it. But those who have, they know exactly what I'm talking about.
I pity the current generation. They have never known the true golden era and may never see one in their lifetimes at the rate the internet and technology is being bastardized.
Ah, i still remember Facepunchstudios, my beloved. And myspace, i created the fucking account and never used it, then this new thing called "facebook" was being used and everyone switched to that
@@TubeOfLaughes Not only wont they see it. They're being taught free and open communication is a bad thing and fully support a centralized internet. They're begging for it actually.
yeah its insane how nowdays you don't have like webforums for each interest anymore, everything is centralized, its like every subreddit had their own website, also I guess mastodon is like this nowdays or trying to make it like
@@TubeOfLaughes Yeah keep pretending the old times were better old man. The internet and technology as a whole is getting more and more exciting every day. If you really think this was the golden era you're just holding onto nostalgia way too much
@@TheHipisterDeer bro not many still had dialup in 2003.... cable and DSL were most common by then. was still slower compared to now but wasn't that bad
My steam account was created january 2004. i am 38 years old now :) there is also a text under the 20 years badge in my account that says: (i translate from german to english) Steam member since January 7, 2004. Accounts created in Steam's first year will receive the Steam Green special edition.
@@helljae. i am not sharing it on social media. Safety reasons. Just google "Steam 20 years badge". You should find a steam discussion with a lot of people with old accounts.
Steam is ultimately better now but theres something to be said for watching something grow. Also where was no awful social media back then. just nerds and forums. And outside time. @Dakelame
I wish we never left 2000's Edit : Not everyone wants to go back and some do wants to go back. I'm one of them and my country is worse than before so i'd prefer the past.
this captures the fucking vibe and aesthetic so well. when eurodancer came on I didn't know to start crying or dancing I was literally twitching.. such good times 🥲🥲
I miss this so much. No shit I'm still building maps for 1.6, play with bots on custom maps sometimes, or just chill somewhere on cs_bikini just to get that classic vibe back.
2003 i was 13 not playing counter strike yet, but doing msn. i played counter strike in 2005. at age 18.....2008 i heard eruodancer for the first time at a pre party, omg the feelings i get when i hear this song, reminds me of drinking alcohol for the first time of my life, getting drunk on 2 smirnoff bottles and 2 small glasses of vodka. fuck im 33. need to live life more
I was 17 years old working at a LAN center when steam launched and I'll never forget my boss installing it frantically on every PC we had while saying "This is going to shut us down. this is going to put me out of business, valve is trying to kill the scene!" In a way he was right, people could no longer come in and play whatever game was installed for a set amount of time, now they had to have an account and have purchased the games themselves
I remember. I asked the LAN cafe owner what the fuck this green thing was. Whole cafe was going at it on de_aztec and I just didn't understand what the hell I need an account for. "Just play 1.5...nobody is playing 1.6 here with the Steam bullshit." He said. It was simple and I really miss it.
@@AllahDoesNotExist Not at the time, and also Steam was extremely unreliable when it first launched; a lot of people absolutely hated it when it first dropped due to connectivity issues. It was a lot like Windows Genuine Advantage tbh
@@llLoWangll lol I remember trying to install Half-Life 1 off my disc copy when it suddenly shoved Steam in my face and I was all "Man, fuck this shit"
@@ZnifferN many belong into all kind of religious cults yet serving the one and the same; BAAL, but ONLY CHRISTIANS - new creatures in CHRIST shall be in heaven.
first of all what are you talking about bro why are you here commenting this spreading hate? no one cares bro second of all other religions say the same thing about christianity, so why are you right and all other religions wrong? It doesnt even matter at the end because you should unite with all humans just based off the fact we are human, not based on faith or belief considering faith and belief is just a thought process and not even real @@theharshtruthoutthere
Wow... The nostalgia hit me hard. Thanks for this, brought back some really nice memories and feelings. 38 years old in 2 months, this was my childhood.
I am so proud that I lived through that time. I remember vividly that the magic of my childhood was playing C.S 1.5 while simultaneously listening to 'Hybrid Theory' by Linkin Park and 'Toxicity!' from System of a Down. I am so happy to have found this video, and my memories came back. I teared up.
yoo remember wheen Toxicity came out? Like literally just around the time Counter Strike came to retail boxes, I remember burning CDs with that song when it came out it was funn
I have such vivid memories of being excited to get home from school and chat to the pals I was just with on MSN. Something about the novelty of online chat was so palpably exciting - transitioning from the functional and grey 90's computing into this big-buttoned, colourful mess was like someone kicking open French doors of the mind and allowing the masses to realise how fun and engaging it could all be. Suddenly computers were cool. You could reach out across the town, country and world - breaching your safe and insular four walls; seeking but never knowing what you'll find. It's a slightly nerdy/pathetic comparison but I can't help but equate it to scratching that itch of navigating and exploring the "unknown world", as so many before us had done centuries ago. Such heartfelt nostalgia to have lived through the Wild West of the internet and its meteoric rise to complete dominance and reliance.
The thumbnail with the stretched out aspect ratio was great because that’s how it was when everyone went to flatscreen and widescreen with 16:10 and 16:9 ratios from CRT displays at the 4:3 ratio. I was “that guy” who -pestered- taught everyone there was something wrong with their display settings and taught them why everything looks so stretched out. A lot of times I get “Oh that’s why everyone looked fat” as one of their reactions.
@@Dr.MSC.W.Krueger Do you know how extraordinarily hard it is to hack somebody using such vulnerabilities? So hard that nobody bothers doing it on random people, and they prefer to target high profile machines.
Love these videos of yours! I wasn't around for this era of the internet but I have always retained a deep fascination with it, keep up the great work!
I see why you like it. It was truly amazing time, a lot of freedom, little to no moderation, the business interest still wasn't really there so you didn't get all sort of things popping off in the programs, everything was pretty scarce (from media stuff to some scripts/programs) so it had substantial value. But what I miss the most is small communities in the games and on the forums living in their own bubbles. You would kind of by accident get into some sort of guild/group in a game with its own webpage and hang out within it with its own events, memes etc. Now it's way too different, everything is very centralized, a lot more people (and of very different groups, early internet is basically the place dominated by very young guys from NA/EU, and folks who could afford and figure out how to do stuff online, now it's a melting pot of normies).
@@iz5808 Fully agree and I share your nostalgia too. Personally, I think that everything went to shit with the first iPhone and social media, when everything became an "app". It removed that basic level of gatekeeping we had back then (but maybe we didn't realize it at the time) - owning a PC to get online, which also required a basic level of technical competency and understanding of the _culture_ before you got any leeway in the community. Nowadays online games (but also all online media) are all too homogeneous, filtered and made to be palatable to anyone, losing all substance in the process.
I don't know why, but despite the fact that I'm 6 years younger that “the video” (if we take the year literally), I feel very nostalgic with all the daily life of that time; you know, the aesthetics, the tech, and another things, that (for me) are very peaceful. Don't ask me why, I don't understand xD
Funny thing is, I was born early 2000s, and while my generation didn't get to experience early internet, we still saw (and are seeing) it evolve. I still remember when business interest wasn't so strong, when it wasn't as polished and when nobody asked about cookies. Those are smaller changes, but still weird.
I remember when Steam came out and the game forum I used to hang out at was full on raging about it and some of them plainly refused to buy HL2; few people had fast internet in the country and it was feared being always online and intrusive anti cheats would become the norm. It took me a long time to play HL2 despite being a huge fan since I had no internet. Turns out they were right; Steam is very convenient but I miss installing the game, double clicking, and playing instantly from the CD. Great video, good job capturing the vibe from the good ol' times
Tbh my favorite part of these is the performance. Press a button and be immediately taken where it leads. No unnecessary effects and animations all over to appeal to the "consumer" or at least whatever the investors think people want.
i cant truly imagine the excitement on people back in the day when these things were launched, no expectation, no past experience, nothings, fresh from ground zero. It must be really nice!
For most people it was the opposite. Many people (including me) hated Steam. I had no DSL back then, so every patch took some hours and I had to pay per minute, you had no choice if you want to update or not, you just had to. Also another argument was, that you can't resell games which was no problem back then. I started with Counter-Strike 1.5 and hated 1.6 for the fact, it forced me to use Steam. Now it's pretty unthinkable that there was a time without it.
@@PortoAlvarez I had 56k dial up around 1999, it was a fixed rate though. Only trouble is that when someone called the landline phone the internet would disconnect lol. Games were a lot more sellable than they are now! I had games upon games on CD's back then... Tell me a game nowadays you buy the actual physical media for? Pretty much zero. On the pc platform anyway.
Very cool to see this. At the time, I thought of Steam only as a way to play CS 1.6 (as most if not all of us did). Many of us HATED steam at first because at the time we were very resistant to the need to use a separate program to launch a game.
And now, Steam is an exemplary example of a platform that treats its customers right and probably one of the last bastions of good gaming. I shudder to think if Steam went away or was exploited to the detriment of the gamers/players.
For me, the thought of not having to own a physical copy of a game to be able to play it legally was the main appeal, but I had doubts whether sufficiently many people felt the same way so the service would not be shut down due to lack of clients.
I didn't even have internet back then. I would just play pinball and Minesweeper. When i upgraded to windows 7, i was awestruck seeing the graphical improvements and the varieties of games provided. Will never get those days back
I would buy magazines with demo discs and play those demos endlessly as there was no internet to download anything else, but even replaying demos was so much fun.
The video brought tears to my eyes. I love and miss the old days, with windows xp, old steam, half life deathmatch, just everything. :c Thank you for bringing back the old memories for us.
This is insane... Feels like im watching and relieving my own chikdhood!! Ty for this. The whole experience is crazy nostalgic. I remember saving as much $ from doing chores/odd jobs to upgrade my gpu to a radeon x850 or something, to run 1.6 at a solid 100fps on a 120hz crt lmao. Good times. ❤
While I was born in 2003, I still have fond memories of my time playing CoD4 with good old Zotac and the flash games in chrome. I still love how the Windows XP and everything looks
Yup, i remember this one during the beta. The steam icon at the taskbar was at first turning when it's updating and later updates it has changed to that icon.
This video is pure GOLD. I am with Steam since 2004 when I first installed HL2. Great times when nothing regarding internet was easy but always rewarding once it work. Thanks for the upload mate!
Nice that there are such emulators and proxys because i wasn't born at that time only since 2004 but i like how the Internet looked back then. Way more colorful and simpler
I miss the old internet because these days, everything is just so... saturated, everything is just going too fast for our health and our general internet culture's health. I feel that the thing I missed the most and appreciated the most from my childhood was limits. I could do whatever I wanted within those limits, and didn't have to worry about anything outside of it. Now I am technically freer than ever to do anything, but I am so crippled and stressed out by this much freedom, I worry about everything. The internet culture of today promoting a lot of FOMO will only degrade our souls over the years. This is the reason why I hate TikTok, it encourages this for young people, and it's successful so a lot of its competitors are trying to emulate them, now we have YT Shorts for TH-cam which is antithetical to TH-cam's ecology so to speak.
This was the perfect amount of technology. Enough to keep you entertained when you're bored, but not so much it becomes addictive and you waste your life online
Took me back to a much simpler time, good job! Though the most unrealistic part about this video is your fast internet speed lol I remember having to wait forever for pages to load, and even longer for things to download. If I was downloading a ~3 GB game, I would leave my computer overnight.
It's comforting to know that other people had similar experiences and that it wasn't all just pleasant dreams my addled mind came up with to soothe me.
Too young to be there during the early 2000s but was around the net as a kid in the mid 2000s so this still hits hard for me. I miss the old net so much...
Ive had steam since july 2004. it's crazy to think i've been using it for almost 20 years now. I think the oldest account is from 2003. I thought it was so cool you could put half life on it. at first I think it was only for games by valve, so I just had half life and opposing force on it for a long time. Even putting blue shift on there eventually was an after thought for me. I didnt think you'd be able to update games if they were on steam.
@@Bottlecapppp11 years is old, but not that old. Accounts considered pioneers are between 2003/2009. What I see most on Steam, practically every day, are people who have accounts from 2003, and use the 20 Years of Steam badge! Note: You can be sure that many people buy these old accounts.
I used to play cs1.6 in 2006/07, those were some good times, it had a different vibe that I cannot really explain, everything was cool and magical for me at that time
For me as well. I can really see the gradual change of the vibe through music, movies, etc. And it doesn't seem like nostalgia. It seems like the quality became worse though it looks more shiny now.
@@aleksandersanya1817 yeah, that's true. it also felt like the world was more together back then in the early stages of internet because it was becoming a popular new thing
Seeing gamespy again after all these years is like passing by that restaurant thats been long gone but you still fondly remember visiting and eating from it.
This video made me smile throughout, thank you for this!!!! Its such a travesty that Microsoft abandoned MSN Messenger too, the features it had were waaayyy ahead of its time.
Dude's unlocking them vivid memories. Can't really express how I miss these times. The excitement on my way home from school to check the forum replies to all of the watched threades. Not even mentinoing playing all of the mp games and having a blast with all guys over Ventrilo
I still remember when CS 1.6 came into existence. I was actually playing in a 1.5 server at that time, the map was de_dust2 and people were talking about 1.5 being the best and being sad about it dying. The server I was on actually crashed (or shut down?) and I was unable to reconnect there, and I somehow thought Valve just shut the entire game down to force people into 1.6. That's when I installed Steam, and I still remember my secret question too.
They 'killed' 1.6 to force people to switch to CSGO, do you remember that? Even with all the hype, way more modern engine, and MONTHS later after it release, CSGO was still behind 1.6 in number of players, so Valve made 1.6 lags/stutter online, mysteriously, out of nowhere. It worked, CSGO got a massive boost on its player base and it took the lead.
Crazy stuff. This video was so nostalgic for me. I still remember (almost like it was yesterday) when steam came out. I was playing CS 1.5 on the old WON servers and wondering if steam and CS 1.6 are gonna be any good. I can't believe it's been 20 years. I still game. But just less. Nowadays I have job, a wife, 2 kids. Back then I had more free time.
90s and 2000s, AND early a lil 2010s were such a beautiful and strange era of our lives that I wish never left. Where you actually went over to houses for LAN parties, local arcades were more a big thing. I would take the bus and skate to my friends house when I was close. From the style to music, the air was different
man i want this time back... 2 of my homies where i was at this time are dead now... this video hit so hard, when i remember that times, playing on lan with that homies
For anybody wondering, Xfire was used to chat with other gamers and it would count how many hours you played the games. Eventually steam added those features and xfire vanished. It became a tournament organizer or something e-sports related, I don't remember.
Oh man xfire, I remember having to migrate to skype because all my school friends were normies. That thing was so much ahead of it's time. Livestreaming, very light client, skinning, the list goes on and on what that thing could do by like 2k7. Now it's been almost 20 years and most of it's features are on Discord, but that thing is a webclient based on freaking chromium, and eats like a half a gigabyte of memory just for vc while xfire could probably do that part with in a handful of megabytes. ._.
This video took me back even if it just was for 13 mins and 11 sec but it made me feel young again. And when eurodancer came on i got goosebumps. God take me back good times good times❤ ty for this nostalgic video❤❤
Actually got a few tears in my eyes. I miss this time so much. Yet I would never return with how good the things we have today is. It's pure nostalgia speaking. Maybe I just wish time stopped back then. If I didn't know of the things we have today, I'd rather it just stopped back then... CS and Warcraft 3 could've kept me going for a pretty long time.
And I was so confused when i first bought CS 1.6. I could not for the life of me understand why I only got steam when putting in the disc. I think a year later I realized that I needed to write in the code on steam to get the actuall game.
i find these videos so cool because i wasnt even born when this is how everything looked and i think its so interesting to see what steam and pcs in general looked like compared to now
Me too bro. I can’t believe I’m actually reading this comment right now, because all of this feels like it was yesterday. Feels like being a caveman that got defrosted out of an ice block. We’re not even old, yet the world just keeps making us feel like we are…
Ah, good old 2020s, times of covid, war crimes, forced LGBTQ, mass layoffs, times when you could not even buy physical media anymore, when everything has become a subscription service. How I miss those times
Windows xp, orkut, msn, inicio do TH-cam, e cs 1.6 de malandro instalado em todos os computadores da lan house(cyber cafe). Que nostalgia! Esse é o computador em 2006/2011. Em 2012 chegou o cs go, todos os computadores tinham windows 7, msn tinha sido trocado pelo skype, e o orkut pelo facebook. Ai tudo mudou. Foi bom enquanto durou, meus amigos.
Bro... i was just 6y/o in 2003, but those years (2003-2008) were absolutely the best years ever. I remember what connecting for the first time felt for me and i can't think there will be a moment like those in the future. Goosebumps.
1.6 is just simply the best. The steam gui was definitely an upgrade over buggy WON gui and cz beta leftover models from gearbox just look sick to this day
@@Ninetails94 Thats why I liked Steam ui minimalistic, simple, straight to the point and easy to use vac on the other hand was useless as it is today people always used third party anti-cheats
@@Ninetails94 Also I forgot to note that with steam update in 1.6 they improved netcode specifically the interp bug so low interp values werent considered as cheating anymore. I remmeber when people switched to 1.6 and played with correct interp values they werent getting wallshots and random lucky shots that easly anymore and were bashing 1.6 for bad bullet reg lol
@@Ninetails94 You are welcome. Vac surely works as valve intends but clearly not how it should be and about steam gui I meant specifically ingame 1.6 old steam gui design not the whole client. The client design is just fine imo
@@macdaniel6029 I had dial-up until 2005 in my shitty third world country. Most people didn't had internet in their homes to begin with, at that time. Cybercafes were massive.
Jesus dude, I almost shed a tear on that start up. I miss XP so much. I wish Steam still looked similar to how it used to look. It was perfect and simple. The only bit left of the old look of steam is loading up 1.6 and using that menu in game. The good ol days. Your desktop looked just like mine back in the day. Ventrilo, mIRC, winRAR, AIM, etc etc.
thank you for this... i grew up in the late 90's and early 2000s... this is such a pleasure and joy to be able to relive again even if through a video.
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how did you do that?!
the fact that you played an early 2000s song, I think by mc bombfunk freestyler?
no i asked how he made steam look like that and how he has windows xp a check emulator@@NeostormXLMAX
Sry but i was 420 like, so fuuuck let`s smoke one for this
Such a unique atmosphere it was. Back when the internet was becoming more widespread but the centralization of power had not yet taken place. Tens of thousands of individual community cultures were flourishing everywhere like islands spread across a vast ocean. It's so hard to describe this time period to people who haven't lived through it. But those who have, they know exactly what I'm talking about.
I pity the current generation. They have never known the true golden era and may never see one in their lifetimes at the rate the internet and technology is being bastardized.
Ah, i still remember Facepunchstudios, my beloved.
And myspace, i created the fucking account and never used it, then this new thing called "facebook" was being used and everyone switched to that
@@TubeOfLaughes Not only wont they see it. They're being taught free and open communication is a bad thing and fully support a centralized internet. They're begging for it actually.
yeah its insane how nowdays you don't have like webforums for each interest anymore, everything is centralized, its like every subreddit had their own website,
also I guess mastodon is like this nowdays or trying to make it like
@@TubeOfLaughes Yeah keep pretending the old times were better old man. The internet and technology as a whole is getting more and more exciting every day. If you really think this was the golden era you're just holding onto nostalgia way too much
Love the old interface that's fast and doesn't have ads shoved in your face.
fast interface sure, but the network...... Ugh... Dialups
Fast? It's dial up Internet bro lamo.
@@TheHipisterDeer bro not many still had dialup in 2003.... cable and DSL were most common by then. was still slower compared to now but wasn't that bad
@@impv1se It was HORRIBLE in 2003 wtf are you talking about lmao
Guy is living his best life in the early 2000s and uploading his exploits to share with us
Hehe. I do!
lobotomy :D
@@ZnifferN Hey, Who Developed the steam Emulator?
The fact that my father has a steam acc from release day maks me feel crazy
Thats pretty cool!! How old are you then? :P
@@ZnifferN Im 19, almost 20
My steam account was created january 2004. i am 38 years old now :) there is also a text under the 20 years badge in my account that says: (i translate from german to english) Steam member since January 7, 2004. Accounts created in Steam's first year will receive the Steam Green special edition.
@@Warlord85 thats awesome dude, got a link to your profile? never seen an OG profile :)
@@helljae. i am not sharing it on social media. Safety reasons. Just google "Steam 20 years badge". You should find a steam discussion with a lot of people with old accounts.
90's and 2000's will never go away, but damm i miss those old designs!
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Same but not exactly, I'm loving the interface design of Windows Vista, since this was my very first OS on a computer I ever used.
PS2 are golden age back then.
@@AliensComeback for me its windows me and 98 :D
Sometimes you don't know you're living in a golden age until you're not.
I was born in 2007 though, i wish i was a teen in early 2000's (but maybe I need to reread your comment again)
Steam is ultimately better now but theres something to be said for watching something grow. Also where was no awful social media back then. just nerds and forums. And outside time. @Dakelame
Nobody realizes that they're living in a golden age until they don't.
you must have blocked out how dogshit steam was in the early days
I wish we never left 2000's
Edit : Not everyone wants to go back and some do wants to go back. I'm one of them and my country is worse than before so i'd prefer the past.
Let’s say 90´s and 2000´s
:/
@@Drugov78 I agree although some countries may not agree but what year has been great for every country
Thank god we left 2000 because of the y2k pandemic 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
atleast we will get gta 6
Dude… The details in in this is so on point! Typing the underscore instead of a question mark due to all the hours in CS!! What a trip back in time :(
this captures the fucking vibe and aesthetic so well. when eurodancer came on I didn't know to start crying or dancing I was literally twitching.. such good times 🥲🥲
I miss this so much. No shit I'm still building maps for 1.6, play with bots on custom maps sometimes, or just chill somewhere on cs_bikini just to get that classic vibe back.
Ahh the good old days, when things were simple.
2003 i was 13 not playing counter strike yet, but doing msn. i played counter strike in 2005. at age 18.....2008 i heard eruodancer for the first time at a pre party, omg the feelings i get when i hear this song, reminds me of drinking alcohol for the first time of my life, getting drunk on 2 smirnoff bottles and 2 small glasses of vodka. fuck im 33. need to live life more
You think so? With Mozilla Firefox as web browser and 7zip icons in the background. It ruined everything
Except we weren't using Netscape in 2003. It was FireFox.
I was 17 years old working at a LAN center when steam launched and I'll never forget my boss installing it frantically on every PC we had while saying "This is going to shut us down. this is going to put me out of business, valve is trying to kill the scene!" In a way he was right, people could no longer come in and play whatever game was installed for a set amount of time, now they had to have an account and have purchased the games themselves
I remember. I asked the LAN cafe owner what the fuck this green thing was. Whole cafe was going at it on de_aztec and I just didn't understand what the hell I need an account for.
"Just play 1.5...nobody is playing 1.6 here with the Steam bullshit." He said.
It was simple and I really miss it.
Didn't they have cybercafé versions ?
@@AllahDoesNotExist Not at the time, and also Steam was extremely unreliable when it first launched; a lot of people absolutely hated it when it first dropped due to connectivity issues. It was a lot like Windows Genuine Advantage tbh
@@llLoWangll lol I remember trying to install Half-Life 1 off my disc copy when it suddenly shoved Steam in my face and I was all "Man, fuck this shit"
Steam killed pc gaming and profitized from buy to play
This is messing with my emotions. The amount of nostalgia crammed in a single video is too damn high!!! love it
Thank you
@@ZnifferN many belong into all kind of religious cults yet serving the one and the same; BAAL, but ONLY CHRISTIANS - new creatures in CHRIST shall be in heaven.
first of all what are you talking about bro why are you here commenting this spreading hate? no one cares bro
second of all other religions say the same thing about christianity, so why are you right and all other religions wrong?
It doesnt even matter at the end because you should unite with all humans just based off the fact we are human, not based on faith or belief considering faith and belief is just a thought process and not even real @@theharshtruthoutthere
@@theharshtruthoutthere did you escape the psych ward or something?
@@thebigcheese8169 so aint we all live in it? earth, if not earlier, then since 2020, filled with psychos.
Wow... The nostalgia hit me hard. Thanks for this, brought back some really nice memories and feelings. 38 years old in 2 months, this was my childhood.
The music really adds to the nostalgia holy shit. Growing up, Eurodance / Trance were my favourite genres
I knooow! And I think it is still good to this day
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@@ZnifferN free stylah!! geah G!!! back when dating was random and dope af
What the first song name?
@@FearZa02 Eurodancer
I am so proud that I lived through that time. I remember vividly that the magic of my childhood was playing C.S 1.5 while simultaneously listening to 'Hybrid Theory' by Linkin Park and 'Toxicity!' from System of a Down. I am so happy to have found this video, and my memories came back. I teared up.
this comment just blew my mind. are you me?
yoo remember wheen Toxicity came out? Like literally just around the time Counter Strike came to retail boxes, I remember burning CDs with that song when it came out it was funn
I only played CS 1.6. It's so engraved in my mind that i didn't even realise 1.6 means version so 1.5 sounds like a prequel or something lol
The new school of this, as someone who was born in 03, was Iron Maiden & Borderlands 2 on a 360 wrapped up in towels lmfao
I have such vivid memories of being excited to get home from school and chat to the pals I was just with on MSN. Something about the novelty of online chat was so palpably exciting - transitioning from the functional and grey 90's computing into this big-buttoned, colourful mess was like someone kicking open French doors of the mind and allowing the masses to realise how fun and engaging it could all be. Suddenly computers were cool. You could reach out across the town, country and world - breaching your safe and insular four walls; seeking but never knowing what you'll find.
It's a slightly nerdy/pathetic comparison but I can't help but equate it to scratching that itch of navigating and exploring the "unknown world", as so many before us had done centuries ago. Such heartfelt nostalgia to have lived through the Wild West of the internet and its meteoric rise to complete dominance and reliance.
And now we're back to the "grey and functional" aesthetic.
The thumbnail with the stretched out aspect ratio was great because that’s how it was when everyone went to flatscreen and widescreen with 16:10 and 16:9 ratios from CRT displays at the 4:3 ratio. I was “that guy” who -pestered- taught everyone there was something wrong with their display settings and taught them why everything looks so stretched out. A lot of times I get “Oh that’s why everyone looked fat” as one of their reactions.
120hz CRT's were the shit
There were few things more exciting than connecting to a multiplayer server and seeing the "Sending Client Info" loading screen.
That was source. In 1.6 it was and is "Precaching resources"
Yeah Probably......😅
Eurodancer , msn , old steam ... Man , I actually have tears in my eyes with nostalgia ... Thanks :')
Np, Julien
and the sadest thing in 20 years you will think the same of the present time so enjoy it it doesn't get better
dont forget winamp
I started crying, when I heard that msn sound … literally … and for reasons.
My man, you just made my day! I wish we all could go back to 5th grade and live thru those legendary times once again!
Thank you
ACTUALLY I was 3 in 2003 so they wouldn't let me attend the 5th grade, better luck next time buster
2003 I was finishing high school and omw to college 😂
Hehe:D You playd 1.6 when it came with Steam?@@itzdm0r3
@@ZnifferN no, I was too into Diablo and console emulation at the time.
Feels weird as hell seeing all the stuff I saw as a kid as an adult again.
hehe you aint a boy anymore
@ZnifferN that's for sure
your computer might be at risk, a classic lmao
Ironically, it is even more at risk now due to hardware backdoors in every architecture. Thanks, Glowies.
Of course it’s at risk-it’s running WinXP.
@@Dr.MSC.W.Krueger Do you know how extraordinarily hard it is to hack somebody using such vulnerabilities?
So hard that nobody bothers doing it on random people, and they prefer to target high profile machines.
Love these videos of yours! I wasn't around for this era of the internet but I have always retained a deep fascination with it, keep up the great work!
I see why you like it. It was truly amazing time, a lot of freedom, little to no moderation, the business interest still wasn't really there so you didn't get all sort of things popping off in the programs, everything was pretty scarce (from media stuff to some scripts/programs) so it had substantial value. But what I miss the most is small communities in the games and on the forums living in their own bubbles. You would kind of by accident get into some sort of guild/group in a game with its own webpage and hang out within it with its own events, memes etc. Now it's way too different, everything is very centralized, a lot more people (and of very different groups, early internet is basically the place dominated by very young guys from NA/EU, and folks who could afford and figure out how to do stuff online, now it's a melting pot of normies).
Thank you so much
@@iz5808 Fully agree and I share your nostalgia too. Personally, I think that everything went to shit with the first iPhone and social media, when everything became an "app". It removed that basic level of gatekeeping we had back then (but maybe we didn't realize it at the time) - owning a PC to get online, which also required a basic level of technical competency and understanding of the _culture_ before you got any leeway in the community. Nowadays online games (but also all online media) are all too homogeneous, filtered and made to be palatable to anyone, losing all substance in the process.
I don't know why, but despite the fact that I'm 6 years younger that “the video” (if we take the year literally), I feel very nostalgic with all the daily life of that time; you know, the aesthetics, the tech, and another things, that (for me) are very peaceful.
Don't ask me why, I don't understand xD
Funny thing is, I was born early 2000s, and while my generation didn't get to experience early internet, we still saw (and are seeing) it evolve. I still remember when business interest wasn't so strong, when it wasn't as polished and when nobody asked about cookies. Those are smaller changes, but still weird.
I remember when Steam came out and the game forum I used to hang out at was full on raging about it and some of them plainly refused to buy HL2; few people had fast internet in the country and it was feared being always online and intrusive anti cheats would become the norm. It took me a long time to play HL2 despite being a huge fan since I had no internet.
Turns out they were right; Steam is very convenient but I miss installing the game, double clicking, and playing instantly from the CD.
Great video, good job capturing the vibe from the good ol' times
Thank you
Intrusive anti cheats did become the norm.
Children are more malleable, they will succumb to the lack of freedom more than adults. It's a sad reality.
I mean, they where definitely right, now you can't even play steam on an old OS without some finnagling
Lo and behold. They were spot on. Now it feels like every game is "internet required" and comes with anti cheat and other shit that makes it 200 gigs.
4:43 surprise appearance by Freestyler hit me right in my euro feels
using firefox in 2003, this guy must be the most wanted hacker in 2024
Thank God, I thought I was the only one who noticed it.
Elaborate
@@Ekawafire version 0.8 is from February 9, 2004
Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Firefox had a few big mainstream years between the IE dominance and the Chrome dominance.
I thoroughly enjoyed every last second of that!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)
I miss old GUI styles, where nothing was oversimplified
Meee2 But I like the mid 05 more
Tbh my favorite part of these is the performance. Press a button and be immediately taken where it leads. No unnecessary effects and animations all over to appeal to the "consumer" or at least whatever the investors think people want.
@@izperehodait's what normal people want idk about u 😂 this old thing was sht
@@izperehoda true
@@aspirewot8408 fuck normal ppl lol
I'm not crying, it's all the rain. Hello oldies
i cant truly imagine the excitement on people back in the day when these things were launched, no expectation, no past experience, nothings, fresh from ground zero. It must be really nice!
It was amazing. I was a teen in the late 90's. Good times.
steam was trash back then. people hated it lol
It was like this: "Why the f#&k do I have to download this thing instead of just downloading the game?!" Much better now though!
For most people it was the opposite. Many people (including me) hated Steam. I had no DSL back then, so every patch took some hours and I had to pay per minute, you had no choice if you want to update or not, you just had to.
Also another argument was, that you can't resell games which was no problem back then. I started with Counter-Strike 1.5 and hated 1.6 for the fact, it forced me to use Steam.
Now it's pretty unthinkable that there was a time without it.
@@PortoAlvarez I had 56k dial up around 1999, it was a fixed rate though. Only trouble is that when someone called the landline phone the internet would disconnect lol.
Games were a lot more sellable than they are now! I had games upon games on CD's back then... Tell me a game nowadays you buy the actual physical media for? Pretty much zero. On the pc platform anyway.
00:09 Nostalgia.... let that sink in boys
the nostalgia! also loving your music selection here
Its like all my old memories of playing PC when I was younger, coming back to me. Thank you so much for this!
The best years of my life are from 2000 to 2018. Thank you for bringing back these memories. 😢😊
Np
REAL
Very cool to see this. At the time, I thought of Steam only as a way to play CS 1.6 (as most if not all of us did). Many of us HATED steam at first because at the time we were very resistant to the need to use a separate program to launch a game.
Yes! Little did we know they would carve an empire that would change the way we play games forever
And now, Steam is an exemplary example of a platform that treats its customers right and probably one of the last bastions of good gaming. I shudder to think if Steam went away or was exploited to the detriment of the gamers/players.
@@randomstranger_3 if steam went away then you'd lose access to all your games numb nuts
I used workarounds until HL2 and source launched
For me, the thought of not having to own a physical copy of a game to be able to play it legally was the main appeal, but I had doubts whether sufficiently many people felt the same way so the service would not be shut down due to lack of clients.
I didn't even have internet back then. I would just play pinball and Minesweeper. When i upgraded to windows 7, i was awestruck seeing the graphical improvements and the varieties of games provided. Will never get those days back
Same here. Would spend hours playing Solitaire, Pinball and Minesweeper.
Crazy how easy it was to have fun back then 😂
I would buy magazines with demo discs and play those demos endlessly as there was no internet to download anything else, but even replaying demos was so much fun.
@@Verociity omg me too
The video brought tears to my eyes. I love and miss the old days, with windows xp, old steam, half life deathmatch, just everything. :c Thank you for bringing back the old memories for us.
msn, winamp, windowws xp, early steam, cs whats not to love 100% brings back the memories
Thank you!!
This is insane... Feels like im watching and relieving my own chikdhood!! Ty for this. The whole experience is crazy nostalgic. I remember saving as much $ from doing chores/odd jobs to upgrade my gpu to a radeon x850 or something, to run 1.6 at a solid 100fps on a 120hz crt lmao. Good times. ❤
While I was born in 2003, I still have fond memories of my time playing CoD4 with good old Zotac and the flash games in chrome. I still love how the Windows XP and everything looks
Yup, i remember this one during the beta. The steam icon at the taskbar was at first turning when it's updating and later updates it has changed to that icon.
Damn… Did you ever try the 2002 Steam beta?
This video is pure GOLD. I am with Steam since 2004 when I first installed HL2. Great times when nothing regarding internet was easy but always rewarding once it work. Thanks for the upload mate!
And Thank you so much!!
Nice that there are such emulators and proxys because i wasn't born at that time only since 2004 but i like how the Internet looked back then. Way more colorful and simpler
I miss the old internet because these days, everything is just so... saturated, everything is just going too fast for our health and our general internet culture's health. I feel that the thing I missed the most and appreciated the most from my childhood was limits. I could do whatever I wanted within those limits, and didn't have to worry about anything outside of it. Now I am technically freer than ever to do anything, but I am so crippled and stressed out by this much freedom, I worry about everything. The internet culture of today promoting a lot of FOMO will only degrade our souls over the years. This is the reason why I hate TikTok, it encourages this for young people, and it's successful so a lot of its competitors are trying to emulate them, now we have YT Shorts for TH-cam which is antithetical to TH-cam's ecology so to speak.
Almost everything was better back than..
Less division.
More happy people.
More healthy people.
Everything was way cheaper.
I wish we could go back..
@@TheTryingDutchman yes 😔
@@TheTryingDutchmaneh, for what country? At the same time the US was going on a geopolitical power trip.
This was the perfect amount of technology. Enough to keep you entertained when you're bored, but not so much it becomes addictive and you waste your life online
Took me back to a much simpler time, good job! Though the most unrealistic part about this video is your fast internet speed lol
I remember having to wait forever for pages to load, and even longer for things to download. If I was downloading a ~3 GB game, I would leave my computer overnight.
Thank you so much!
I remember downloading metal gear solid 1 for 2 days straight hahaha, had like 560 kb/'s... good times nonetheless 😊
I was 2 years old by then so I never could experience this, but it feels so nostalgic and warm.
It was more than a month before I was born when Steam launched (born in Nov. 5) but I feel the same too
too crazy
yo im 22y too
im 22 too, i feel the same!
It's comforting to know that other people had similar experiences and that it wasn't all just pleasant dreams my addled mind came up with to soothe me.
Too young to be there during the early 2000s but was around the net as a kid in the mid 2000s so this still hits hard for me.
I miss the old net so much...
Ive had steam since july 2004. it's crazy to think i've been using it for almost 20 years now. I think the oldest account is from 2003. I thought it was so cool you could put half life on it. at first I think it was only for games by valve, so I just had half life and opposing force on it for a long time. Even putting blue shift on there eventually was an after thought for me. I didnt think you'd be able to update games if they were on steam.
when steam came out you had to use email instead of a username, thats why my steam account still has an email instead of a steam username lol
@@yasinozkanwhat's funny is that when they changed that now it won't even accept putting your email as your username, says invalid
and i thought my 11 years old account was very old
i m at steam since Augfust 2004.. Was a great time back then for gaming@@Bottlecapppp
@@Bottlecapppp11 years is old, but not that old. Accounts considered pioneers are between 2003/2009. What I see most on Steam, practically every day, are people who have accounts from 2003, and use the 20 Years of Steam badge! Note: You can be sure that many people buy these old accounts.
This is my childhood right here. Counter Strike, GTA Vice City/San Andreas, MSN Messanger. Good times.
I used to play cs1.6 in 2006/07, those were some good times, it had a different vibe that I cannot really explain, everything was cool and magical for me at that time
For me as well. I can really see the gradual change of the vibe through music, movies, etc. And it doesn't seem like nostalgia. It seems like the quality became worse though it looks more shiny now.
@@aleksandersanya1817 yeah, that's true. it also felt like the world was more together back then in the early stages of internet because it was becoming a popular new thing
it was just a game we had fun and played. no rewards and badges useless bss. no broken games or crashes. we had a game, we played and was fun
It IS nostalgia though.
But this is normal and it happens with everyone, any given generation will miss somethings from their teen years
@@maxspechter4321 no, you missed my point. I think the quality and the vibe were more positive. It’s my analysis, not the emotion.
Seeing gamespy again after all these years is like passing by that restaurant thats been long gone but you still fondly remember visiting and eating from it.
That MSN notification sound activated something that was buried very deep in my brain, I got startled and confused for a moment, lol!
Nice to hear that the video brings back memories!
This video made me smile throughout, thank you for this!!!!
Its such a travesty that Microsoft abandoned MSN Messenger too, the features it had were waaayyy ahead of its time.
Im glad it did
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
Cara, que nostalgia... se é loco, da até vontade de chorar, que tempo bom!!!
Usar a internet nessa época era uma experiência única, foi o auge do relacionamento sadio entre pessoas e computadores e não sabíamos disso.
eu era mto mto feliz essa epoca
Tempos que a internet era um "local" que acessávamos/visitávamos de vez em quando, hoje vivemos dentro dela...
@@warpdarkmatter exatamente cara
@@hartt1 eu tbm em
Dude's unlocking them vivid memories. Can't really express how I miss these times. The excitement on my way home from school to check the forum replies to all of the watched threades. Not even mentinoing playing all of the mp games and having a blast with all guys over Ventrilo
today kids will never understand the internet cafes playing vibes. IT WAS SUCH A GREAT ERA..
I still remember when CS 1.6 came into existence. I was actually playing in a 1.5 server at that time, the map was de_dust2 and people were talking about 1.5 being the best and being sad about it dying. The server I was on actually crashed (or shut down?) and I was unable to reconnect there, and I somehow thought Valve just shut the entire game down to force people into 1.6. That's when I installed Steam, and I still remember my secret question too.
Hmm… But they didnt shut down their won servers for CS before mid 04
They 'killed' 1.6 to force people to switch to CSGO, do you remember that? Even with all the hype, way more modern engine, and MONTHS later after it release, CSGO was still behind 1.6 in number of players, so Valve made 1.6 lags/stutter online, mysteriously, out of nowhere. It worked, CSGO got a massive boost on its player base and it took the lead.
@@hugoooobr 1.5, not 1.6, this is 10 or so years earlier
This feels like a re-enactment of History.
Valve: Will no longer work on systems before win 10
This guy: I have 98
He's using XP homie.
counter-strike non steam version: hold my beer valvesoft
Zoomers...
Сосиска
@@_anastasiaD _анастасияД
Brings memories! :) Since january 2nd 2024, my account on Steam is 20yo :)
Cool!
Crazy stuff. This video was so nostalgic for me. I still remember (almost like it was yesterday) when steam came out. I was playing CS 1.5 on the old WON servers and wondering if steam and CS 1.6 are gonna be any good. I can't believe it's been 20 years. I still game. But just less. Nowadays I have job, a wife, 2 kids. Back then I had more free time.
Wow
21 actually
Great video...That MSN notification just hits different.
For sure….:/
Having all your class mates in the friends list.. Oh man
@@AwesomeRepix + waitin for your crush to log in
@@ZnifferN damn truth
This video almost made me cry. Golden times, we didn't realize how good we had it.
Good times
90s and 2000s, AND early a lil 2010s were such a beautiful and strange era of our lives that I wish never left. Where you actually went over to houses for LAN parties, local arcades were more a big thing. I would take the bus and skate to my friends house when I was close.
From the style to music, the air was different
Life was so simple lol. Take me back.
*Hooray! New nostalgic video👍*
👌👌
man i want this time back... 2 of my homies where i was at this time are dead now... this video hit so hard, when i remember that times, playing on lan with that homies
For anybody wondering, Xfire was used to chat with other gamers and it would count how many hours you played the games.
Eventually steam added those features and xfire vanished.
It became a tournament organizer or something e-sports related, I don't remember.
Oh man xfire, I remember having to migrate to skype because all my school friends were normies. That thing was so much ahead of it's time. Livestreaming, very light client, skinning, the list goes on and on what that thing could do by like 2k7. Now it's been almost 20 years and most of it's features are on Discord, but that thing is a webclient based on freaking chromium, and eats like a half a gigabyte of memory just for vc while xfire could probably do that part with in a handful of megabytes. ._.
@@laeamminlakana-matt5692 We really didn't progress much since then. If anything we regressed. 😮💨
@@laeamminlakana-matt5692 bro...really? Thats insane
This video took me back even if it just was for 13 mins and 11 sec but it made me feel young again. And when eurodancer came on i got goosebumps. God take me back good times good times❤ ty for this nostalgic video❤❤
Np
Actually got a few tears in my eyes. I miss this time so much.
Yet I would never return with how good the things we have today is. It's pure nostalgia speaking.
Maybe I just wish time stopped back then. If I didn't know of the things we have today, I'd rather it just stopped back then...
CS and Warcraft 3 could've kept me going for a pretty long time.
And I was so confused when i first bought CS 1.6.
I could not for the life of me understand why I only got steam when putting in the disc. I think a year later I realized that I needed to write in the code on steam to get the actuall game.
i find these videos so cool because i wasnt even born when this is how everything looked and i think its so interesting to see what steam and pcs in general looked like compared to now
I'm 43 this Weds...bloody hell I remember everything like it was just yesterday :(
I was born in 2006 and these videos're my only way to experience a era I wasn't part of. Thank you for that!
haha! same. just turned 18 and played og halflife. thank god we can still play the games of that era
I feel so fucking old right now
Me too bro. I can’t believe I’m actually reading this comment right now, because all of this feels like it was yesterday. Feels like being a caveman that got defrosted out of an ice block. We’re not even old, yet the world just keeps making us feel like we are…
Np
@@goeyguts old is like 70+ bro don’t worry
There has to be a behind the scenes video, I don't know how you managed to pull this off but you did it perfectly.
Hehe! Thank you so much, Sir!
Realising the 2020's will become nostalgic someday is a thought that comes up whenever i see videos like these.
Ah, good old 2020s, times of covid, war crimes, forced LGBTQ, mass layoffs, times when you could not even buy physical media anymore, when everything has become a subscription service. How I miss those times
@@bionic_batman Literally all of those things you mentioned is baby stuff in comparison to shit that happened in 2000s-2010s lmao.
ah the good ol days. Steam needs to bring this menu style back
Dont think they will
you can download a skin lol
Windows xp, orkut, msn, inicio do TH-cam, e cs 1.6 de malandro instalado em todos os computadores da lan house(cyber cafe). Que nostalgia! Esse é o computador em 2006/2011. Em 2012 chegou o cs go, todos os computadores tinham windows 7, msn tinha sido trocado pelo skype, e o orkut pelo facebook. Ai tudo mudou. Foi bom enquanto durou, meus amigos.
mano, eu só queria voltar naquele tempo ;=;
The only unreal thing in the video is the internet speed haha
The transition of the internet as islands but also the internet being more widely accepted so from 2004 to about 2011 was a very fun time.
Bro... i was just 6y/o in 2003, but those years (2003-2008) were absolutely the best years ever. I remember what connecting for the first time felt for me and i can't think there will be a moment like those in the future. Goosebumps.
And I was 6 year in 2001. Best memories indeed!
you're missing the unregistered hypercam logo in the top left
back when it didn't suffice to be a casual gamer. You had to know stuff xD
True haha
Sometimes i miss the old times. And we all know they will never come back again. And i am glad that i grew up with this.
1.6 is just simply the best. The steam gui was definitely an upgrade over buggy WON gui and cz beta leftover models from gearbox just look sick to this day
@@Ninetails94 Thats why I liked Steam ui minimalistic, simple, straight to the point and easy to use vac on the other hand was useless as it is today people always used third party anti-cheats
@@Ninetails94 Also I forgot to note that with steam update in 1.6 they improved netcode specifically the interp bug so low interp values werent considered as cheating anymore. I remmeber when people switched to 1.6 and played with correct interp values they werent getting wallshots and random lucky shots that easly anymore and were bashing 1.6 for bad bullet reg lol
@@Ninetails94 You are welcome. Vac surely works as valve intends but clearly not how it should be and about steam gui I meant specifically ingame 1.6 old steam gui design not the whole client. The client design is just fine imo
No, when steam came out 1.5 was way better. We got used to steam eventually but I still miss WON sometimes.
@@macdaniel6029 I personally dont really miss them but I guess eventually people get used to better things
Unticking Ricochet without second thought :D
Nobody plays Ricochet.
Nailed the simulated experience- only difference was webpages didn’t load that fast haha 😂
Super cool though. Lots of memories.
In fact they did. At least with DSL. If you still had dial-up internet in the 2000s you messed up big time.
@@macdaniel6029 I had dial-up until 2005 in my shitty third world country.
Most people didn't had internet in their homes to begin with, at that time. Cybercafes were massive.
Thank you
Jesus dude, I almost shed a tear on that start up. I miss XP so much. I wish Steam still looked similar to how it used to look. It was perfect and simple. The only bit left of the old look of steam is loading up 1.6 and using that menu in game. The good ol days. Your desktop looked just like mine back in the day. Ventrilo, mIRC, winRAR, AIM, etc etc.
8:48 and this is why to this day my Steam username is a hotmail account I haven't had access to for about 15 years
Man, you hit right into nostalgia ❤
Im glad it did
The golden age...
My account was created on january 17th 2004..crazy how time flies :o
nothing can beat early 20's/late 19's vibe
True!!
1919 vibe is the greatest tho
I want to see a video about 2010 2011 2012?
There will be some day!
The sin of society was advanced really fast on technology software and hardware, moments like this only a few people will renember
Disk space required 1214 MB , the good old times! 💀
9:18 LET'S GO MAN UNITED
glory glory
Back when things had color and it wasn’t all just boring, minimalistic garbage.
The downfall of Windows UI needs to be studied
thank you for this... i grew up in the late 90's and early 2000s... this is such a pleasure and joy to be able to relive again even if through a video.
Np
AWESOME... how u can do it???
Thank you! Emulator, waybackmachine, editing etc