For everyone interested in the Steam Emulator: cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=120040

@sed.boisad

7 ай бұрын

i tried to download from github it says that for this archive you need password

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Password: cs.rin.ru

@retroke6560

6 ай бұрын

I'm interested in the song

@JohnDoe-uc5iu

6 ай бұрын

@@retroke6560 its from the hl2 soundtrack

@SuperThunder

6 ай бұрын

Hello ! , Welcome My Friend ! , How Are You? Going Good ? :))

*The old version of Steam gives some nostalgia.*

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Old flat green Steam :D

@fargusy

7 ай бұрын

​​@@ZnifferN, yeah

@damsen978

6 ай бұрын

I honestly prefer the 2012 version of Steam.

@ANGEL_117TM

6 ай бұрын

​@@damsen978Me too.

@SnackPatrol

6 ай бұрын

Old Steam was notoriously horrible though. Was buggy as hell, and the Friends List did not work for literally years. There is an infamous Steam gif floating around that many people will remember from that time period...Also, this is not the oldest version the OG interface was uglier believe it or not. Pure sewage green. If you search hard enough you can find videos of it. I linked the title for a vid displaying it in a previous comment but I think the AI flagged it for some reason.

I never saw a steam UI that old. First I used was the far simpler looking olive drab UI. Weirdly that older UI looks a lot closer to steam's modern interface in a lot of ways. Rounded corners, gradients, no real borders on various controls other than a few.

@NikkiMcMistie

6 ай бұрын

yeah it's a transition to frutiger aero from the y2k aesthetic from the green one. some apps wanted to integrate glossyness and tech optimism while some like steam liked to lean more towards flat frutiger metro styles

@TheStapluh

6 ай бұрын

There's even another before this version that's silver and blue

@wulfffo

6 ай бұрын

@@NikkiMcMistie I believe it was just because it was much simpler to not have images rule the UI for formatting and instead just use the OS itself for that.

@JoeyMace28

6 ай бұрын

I really miss the 2010 era UI tbh.

@7.0_SeT.sErO_7.0

6 ай бұрын

and it was better than today's epic

Pretty sure this was the year when Valve allowed 3rd party and any other company to sell their game on Steam. I recall Darwinia is among the earliest entry of non-Valve game to be available on Steam and so it was the first non-Valve game I bought here lol

@ZnifferN

3 ай бұрын

Youre right!

@KTBKNKU

2 ай бұрын

My first non-Valve game I bought on Steam was BloodRayne. Bought it back in 2006 during christmas.

I remember filling that steam games list with demos and free games because I didn't have the money to buy counter strike or half life 2 and searching for hacks to add hl2 to my steam account legit so I could play garry's mod and have all the content downloaded and play online

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Hehe, those were different times, for better or for worse

@2ezxfunnyyt856

6 ай бұрын

Green Luma and cs.rin iirc

@justin2221

6 ай бұрын

just initiate a reverse bhop

Bro your videos take me back to such simpler times. Thank you for all the effort you put into these!

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Druckzee

@techpriest4787

6 ай бұрын

Simpler? Messing around with OS drivers. Messing around with manual game and runtime installs and updates is what you call simpler?

@eveahn9595

6 ай бұрын

​@@techpriest4787it's about being younger man

@Weather_67

6 ай бұрын

@@techpriest4787bitter

@Cavi587

6 ай бұрын

@@techpriest4787 I think it means simpler as in when they were younger (possibly kids at the time) they didn't have to care about responsibilities, just turned on their PC, opened steam and played some games until going to bed.

Oh man... Windows XP is just simple, beautiful and direct to the point at same time. No crap workarounds to do something.

@MondySpartan

7 ай бұрын

No telemetry, and no ads shoved right in front of your face. XP to 7 remains superior to this day.

@thelivingdead1728

7 ай бұрын

Blinded by nostalgia

@MondySpartan

7 ай бұрын

@@thelivingdead1728 Except these OSes felt more easy to use compared to 10 and at worse, 11. For example, there was only one Control Panel app, and every configuration to your system was all done there. Windows 8 split them into two, and later releases of Windows 10 and 11 forces you to use the simplified settings app for most options. Don’t get me wrong, I love 11’s Fluent UI.

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

True

@antonioytm

7 ай бұрын

@@MondySpartan What ads? I never saw ad in windows Windows as always works and has access and support of every program, game, etc as amazing backward compatibility and windows is best in that.. that is what matters to people Telemetry is present in android, ios, macos.. not just windows and tbh i really dont care about that

Maaan, the time passed quite quickly.. How good was in 2010 when i tried half life first time with my friends when i was 10, and now in 2023 i'm a grown ass man who is alone.. it's so sad

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

:/

@alpinist52

6 ай бұрын

Time really does pass that quickly. I’m just watching the life I’ve come to love slip away from me and there’s nothing I could do about it. At least we’re in the same boat, stay safe my friend.

@HerZeL3iDza

6 ай бұрын

@@alpinist52 Once you hit around 24 years of age time goes even quicker. One day you just sit there at 37 years of age and think how all your time was just wasted.

@IronHorse1854

6 ай бұрын

@@HerZeL3iDza Time only goes fast if you don't find a reason to remember every moment. The less time you waste, the more time you'll remember, the longer the years will be. There were a few years in my very late teens to early 20s that absolutely flew by, because I was doing nothing, came out of high school, got into uni, dropped out cause I realised I had no idea what I actually wanted to do, spent every day playing the same video games with the same friends working the same boring dead end entry level job. Then I started travelling and time slowed down, months felt like years and weeks felt like months cause I was constantly doing something new every day. Then I got married and my partner helped me realise what I wanted to really do with my life and I found a career that I love, where I do something new and something that very few people get to do, every single day, I get to help people that no one else wants to help, excitement happens all the time and I routinely experience the thrill of rushing, often blindly, into situations where my help is needed, I go to work and have no idea what's gonna happen or what the day will be like. Now time feels even more slow, in good way, and I remember all my days fondly, even the bad days are at least good stories once they're done. You just gotta find what you wanna do with your life and always be learning and experiencing new things. Don't let your life become boring, it's a sure way to wake up on your death bed one day wondering "where'd all the time go? What did I even do with it all?".

@Zsolyy

5 ай бұрын

@@alpinist52 ❤️

The black/orange windows xp theme is so good man, still looks good to this day Also the old version of steam had so much more personality to it

@kiiturii

6 ай бұрын

it's also terrible lol

@mahzorimipod

6 ай бұрын

microsoft zune theme lol

These are the times I'll always wish to re live.

@derekjohn7535

7 ай бұрын

Same man, same

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

It would have been awesome to do!

I come here after watching "The Evolution Of Steam" from another channel and I love your video dude. You show us a lot of detail of memory reflection right here.

@ZnifferN

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, Royal

An amazing retrospect. It refreshed many memories of the early 2000s when the gaming industry was at its pinnacle. These were such a good times. That Doom 3 wallpaper also looks cool. You just earned a sub. :)

This video is making me nostalgic for an experience I was just too young to witness myself. Well done!

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

i remember in 2009 i cried in front of my father to buy me 128mb of ram to play gta vice city on my pentium 4 pc 😂 bro those were golden ages.

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Hahahah

@CreetEnemyDK

7 ай бұрын

u got it?

@AeySiD

6 ай бұрын

@@CreetEnemyDK Yes sir, matter of fact im still using core 2 duo with 2gb ram in 2023, almost 2024 😁

@IAm-zo1bo

6 ай бұрын

​@@AeySiDdamn where do you live? Are pc's expensive there?

@AeySiD

6 ай бұрын

@@IAm-zo1bo well brother yes but at the same time no, because the normal gaming pc cost around 50k in our currency which is about $178 in dollars, pretty cheap right? yeah but not for us since average monthly salary is 20k here which is again about $71 in dollars, my dad worked at railway for nearly 34 yrs and now he's retired and his monthly pension is 25k which is about $90, and we have to pay electric, gas, water bills everything with it plus monthly expenses, so yeah, sometimes its hard even to get proper food but still thank God, at least we are not homeless 😊

This brings back good memories! The ATI Ads, the aspect of icons, good times! Lots of fun hours playing Half-Life 2, CS Source, UT2004, Doom 3, Far Cry, Painkiller and others! Also miss my 19" CRT Monitor, should have kept it! Thank you for the upload

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Im glad it did!

props to the dude for going back to 2005 just for this footage

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Haha, np

It's a good video. I started using Steam as an Orange Box in 2005. Darwinia was a game I really wanted to try. At the time, I had a Pentium D and GeForce 9300 computer, so even playing the demo was difficult. So, I think I played Counter Strike for several thousand hours.

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Monami!

I love these videos that show what was it like back then using the stuff we use every day. Thank you for this somewhat historic video.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Blind Hawk

@AlCapone10003

6 ай бұрын

2003 for me, during the beta test. Time certainly does fly. ☹

Maybe some of you find this nostalgic, but remember this was the first time you had to install Steam to play a game (Orange Box) and some years later you had to have steam to install games. Miss the times were you only needed the CD

@Atte093

6 ай бұрын

I remember being so pissed that after buying Half Life 2 you couldnt just install the game and start playing. Instead i was forced to dowload and login to some steam nonsense before i could start playing.

no cap, i miss this old time installing steam in my computer in that year. It really got me sometimes when i see some videos like that, it's almost 2024 and i'm so grateful i can't experience this after reach 2024

I miss old websites and how they all fitted with the theme of the game on the webpage

For any peopl wondering thisis not an old video, he is using virtual box, you can see the virtual box icon on the start menu(lower right near the time), and you can also see at 2:10 he is using the wayback machine, a website archiver from which you can access old versions of websites. If you wonder how it's done and are too lazy to look at the description. Awesome video btw, love the vibe.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Skystunt!

@Ren3gaid

6 ай бұрын

Also he's downloading with 15 MB/s lol

@Taivuttaja

6 ай бұрын

And also when he is installing the games, you can see that he has like 8TB of spare storage, so that part he forgot to configure on his VM. And the bandwidth, as mentioned by @Ren3gaid

I was Kindergarten when Half Life 2 came out yet I still feel nostalgia for this vid.

@craftah

6 ай бұрын

i wish i could go back in time when i was in kindergarten

@Spetsnaz690

6 ай бұрын

I wasn't even born

@HighTierGaming123

6 ай бұрын

​@@Spetsnaz690same

Dude, i remember registering back in 2012 just to buy GMOD when everyone else was doing it. This video definetly brings me back to that first experience albiet differently. Steam's aged man. Thank you Lord Newell.

The fact that the steam UI looks so old yet extremely nostalgic for some people that probably were born in like the earliest generation of zoomers before gaming was this popular makes this video a huge piece of evidence and a historical source on what steam really looked like back then. I'm really surprised in how it turned from greyish darkish lime to basically just a shade of normal and dark blue. Steam ages hard.

The Triage at Dawn makes this emotional by nature video even more emotional, well done m8.

I'm gonna subscribe, it's so impressing to see what it was like before. 👍 The music is great, by the way.

I became a steam member in 2014, and i remember seeing old photos of how steam use to look. It looks cool, you get that early 2000s kind of vibe. I wish steam had an option to switch to its original backround. Would be dope!

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Yeahhh

@h0pesfall

6 ай бұрын

I am member since 2004... thank you for reminding me that I am old... lol

@billybest5276

6 ай бұрын

@@h0pesfall haha same

This video brings back fond memories. The best and most exciting time of PC gaming for me. I installed all the programmes on the desktop myself. XP Theme is cool. I remember this Steam version very well. When I registered with Steam on 12 September 2003 I received a 5-digit ID and since September 2023 I have been holding the 20 years special edition Steam badge in green hehe. I still have a PC from the 2004 era - it should still have the old steam installer on it :)

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Wow thats impressive!! Was planting on making a 2003 steam install video aswell

thank you, just browsing the web and the old layout, you really cant know how much this means to me,

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Np Bb6ko, was thinking about to do a video on 2003 install aswell

At the time it was a normal looking day. Looking back now, it was a magical moment. 20 years really went that fast huh

At the time, I had no idea why I should use Steam, because better to buy CD or DVD. Honestly, I still have this criteria.

@MadmanQueenKiller

6 ай бұрын

I agree especially if you look at the steam user agreement, every game you buy, they're basically loaned only. CD/DVD can't be taken away from you but they can be forced to be obsolete by not including CD readers to new PC.s anymore.......

@SNFDNSD

6 ай бұрын

because of mods and steam updates certain games.

Talk about a blast from the past. Love the channel. P.S What's the track name? Melancholic music just so fits this.

This brings me back to when I was about 5 years old and my uncle got me into counter strike 1.6/ source, thank you for this - its been a while since I've been able to see this

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Np! Im glad the video brought you back in time

I love these videos, they're made with love

Que locura los viejos tiempos, no solo desde steam sino desde que se ve el fondo de pantalla, ver ese fondo, los íconos, los juegos, qué nostalgia eh, creo que eran mejor esas épocas que las actuales y si me dieran a elegir me quedaría viviendo en ese tiempo.

@athousandleavesturninsideyou

6 ай бұрын

tal cual amigo

your ability to clarify complex subjects is unparalleled!

Holy crap I haven’t seen the original UI in years. Nostalgia

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

I remember buying Counter strike pack with half life and condition zero. The box came with the activation code to use it in steam. 2003, 20 years ago.. good times..

i love the fact that you got shortcuts to mIRC, Ventrilo and Winamp :D mIRC with the "now playing" plugin so everyone can see what you were listening to. Great times, great times.

@ZnifferN

Ай бұрын

Hehe yeah!

Steam turned out a lot better than I had assumed it would back then but this was basically the beginning of the end of you actually owning your software.

Loved to see you had my favorite MIRC.😂

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Hehe :D

Dude, the XP zune theme brings back so many memories

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

And it looks so good!

That Doom 3 wallpaper takes me back lmao

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

You did a amazing job! It was a nostalgia since I experienced how the internet used to look like in 2000s. It was a beautiful, good old days.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Kerron

Omg this was the one i waited for, i was 5!!

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Hehe :D

Great video!! here's some PC classic suggestions Medal of Honor Allied Assault 2002 Max Payne 2001 or Max Payne 2 2003 F.E.A.R. 2005, SWAT 4 2005 GTA IV 2008, Mirror's Edge 2009

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! And thanks for the suggestions

I wanna go back in time. I want to play HL2 on Windows XP.

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

You can do it! :D

I’m nostalgic even though i didn’t live like this

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

so much heart and style in old software design. even if it's clunky and ugly now, i look back at all the old shitty software i used very fondly. that typing trainer All The Right Type, and even the old Google Earth UI. glorious

This video made me nostalgic

god this bring backs memories, this and xfire took about 10 minutes to load

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

This video almost made me cry of nostalgia and feeling how old I am rn 😂

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

My man

@twelve.hundred988

6 ай бұрын

@@ZnifferN my desktop was pretty similar back in 2004-2005. I remember Doom 3 wallpaper as background image, lol. it was amazing

great video +bonus Cantona-cameo, GGMU bro

Man I was just telling friends I miss the old steam UI The algorithm got me again.

oh my god the older times.. this is so cool

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

mIRC brings me nostalgic memories, good times!

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

i love the soundtrack in the back so much memories

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

i miss the 00s so much. couldnt get into pc gaming much cus was broke but loved combat arm zombie mode and runescape.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

The fact that he said that his childhood hero was Cantona really impresed me

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Hehe, u united fan aswell?

@t1l3n0x9

6 ай бұрын

@@ZnifferN well i used too, but i still like them😁

I was so happy back in those days

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Bro :/

17 Nov 2004 here. Over dial up. from my downstairs neighbours apartment. We had no phone line. Was in college. Just to play hl2. Good times.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Hehe

very cool. the only inaccuracy would be the Zune theme which is from 2006.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Damn... Didnt know

I'm from 2006 and I travelled in time all the way to 2023 just to watch this tutorial so thank you! Also, what's that pandemic in 2020? Anyway I have to go back, see ya

At 1:16 that webpage design, and aesthetics hit me right in the feels. Good times man.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

They probably spent more time on things back then

I was literally born that year, and yet I wanna go back...

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

:/

I remember that from when I bought Red Orchestra. XD

props for using Path of Borealis as background music B)

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

Man when I first installed steam I barely knew how computers worked.

This is the steam i grew up with

@ZnifferN

7 ай бұрын

:D

Jesus, the flashbacks this gives me

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

I wish Valve add an option for change Steam visually. For example in the options or view menu > Theme or Skin, and in that menu u can select all previous versions of Steam

@excess.subiefl0w

6 ай бұрын

I used that over 10 years ago. Doubt it works or is updated anymore. There is also a steam profile skin that brings back the same look

@OfficialCaptainObvious

3 ай бұрын

@@excess.subiefl0wThey removed skins in June 2023 i think.

this video gave me so much nostalgia man. I remember back in the day using my father laptop to play CSS on winodws xp and it was so laggy because the laptop only has 512 mb of ram and powered with intel pentium 4 only no GPU i got like 10-15 fps, and for me at that time i find Source Engine has the most realistic graphics in gaming haha.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was the best looking game at the time

The music is so appropriate too lmao

@icicle76

5 ай бұрын

what version of the song in the video does Serena play at the end?

this video makes me feel old

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

:/

I kinda miss old steam.

The WinRAR, Ventrilo, and WinAMP makes this a truly authentic experience.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

The zune theme is so nostalgic.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Mhm :D

Such terrifying wallpaper lmao

that background goes hard

This music…. Legendary.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Yeaaah!

A video straight from 2000's

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Kind of hehe

In those times Xfire was common. I miss it. It did what Steam could do in an era long past.

The triage at dawn goes hard with this. Thank you.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Np

@2cwldys701

6 ай бұрын

@@ZnifferN *sheds a tear of nostalgia*

Last days of the Y2K aesthetic... Frutiger Aero is just around the corner... Fun times.

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Yep!! And then flat win8 came aften aero…

omg the nostalgia even tho i was born that year

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Right in the feels!

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

I hope you can make a tutorial on how to do this, its really cool. Keep uploading! :D

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

Makes me wish Steam had a Legacy mode UI. That Olive is peak

that lag on start up.. oh my god.. i love it :D :D :D

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for creating this for archival purposes!

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Omg i remember this Half Life 2 website, graphic on a screenshots was unreal that times, i was going always there and thinking my PC would never ever runt that game

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

Mhm! Seems like people have forgotten how groundbreaking HL2 was these days

I was in 10th grade when I created my steam account the day it dropped. time flies.

What a wonderful time...

I 100% srsly want that old steam back. 30 times more performant. No chrome bs. Actually focussed on lightweight serving your games - not their shop. I miss old steam.

Windows XP was definitely fun era.

13MB/s would be a dream back then

This is more than nostalgia...

@ZnifferN

6 ай бұрын

damn, the internet was a beautiful place

@ZnifferN

5 ай бұрын

It was

Only the WinRAR is keeping it classy till this day