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@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
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@RedLine_Renesis5 ай бұрын
6.1 is lit
@D.G.S.M.T5 ай бұрын
how did you do that?!
@NeostormXLMAX4 ай бұрын
the fact that you played an early 2000s song, I think by mc bombfunk freestyler?
@D.G.S.M.T4 ай бұрын
no i asked how he made steam look like that and how he has windows xp a check emulator@@NeostormXLMAX
@Harry-uana2 ай бұрын
Sry but i was 420 like, so fuuuck let`s smoke one for this
@ToiletPlugger4 ай бұрын
Sometimes you don't know you're living in a golden age until you're not.
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
@Dakelame2 ай бұрын
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)
@ToiletPlugger2 ай бұрын
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
@SmokeBloody2 ай бұрын
Nobody realizes that they're living in a golden age until they don't.
@mangofett692 ай бұрын
you must have blocked out how dogshit steam was in the early days
@weplo15975 ай бұрын
I wish we never left 2000's
@Drugov785 ай бұрын
Let’s say 90´s and 2000´s
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
:/
@weplo15975 ай бұрын
@@Drugov78 I agree although some countries may not agree but what year has been great for every country
@turkigo70575 ай бұрын
Thank god we left 2000 because of the y2k pandemic 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
@jakodarex5 ай бұрын
atleast we will get gta 6
@ApocDevTeam5 ай бұрын
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.
@TubeOfLaughes5 ай бұрын
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.
@RazorsharpLT4 ай бұрын
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
@tdestroyer47804 ай бұрын
@@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.
@NeostormXLMAX4 ай бұрын
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
@Antonwas124 ай бұрын
@@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
@guilhermeotelles3 ай бұрын
90's and 2000's will never go away, but damm i miss those old designs!
@ZnifferN3 ай бұрын
Me2
@AliensComeback2 ай бұрын
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.
@kiyominishimatsuHsora2 ай бұрын
PS2 are golden age back then.
@dumkorph5 ай бұрын
Guy is living his best life in the early 2000s and uploading his exploits to share with us
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Hehe. I do!
@yougnomed6305 ай бұрын
lobotomy :D
@anthonyclements71243 ай бұрын
@@ZnifferN Hey, Who Developed the steam Emulator?
@brunovance81015 ай бұрын
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
@llLoWangll5 ай бұрын
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.
@AllahDoesNotExist5 ай бұрын
Didn't they have cybercafé versions ?
@brunovance81015 ай бұрын
@@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
@brunovance81015 ай бұрын
@@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"
@seanmoore46535 ай бұрын
Steam killed pc gaming and profitized from buy to play
@C0CNCKAАй бұрын
Valve: Will no longer work on systems before win 10 This guy: I have 98
@pintola14 ай бұрын
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.
@daioxide5 ай бұрын
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 🥲🥲
@llLoWangll5 ай бұрын
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.
@ixinor5 ай бұрын
Ahh the good old days, when things were simple.
@brownpleasure93205 ай бұрын
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
@p1mm35 ай бұрын
You think so? With Mozilla Firefox as web browser and 7zip icons in the background. It ruined everything
@PatientXero6075 ай бұрын
Except we weren't using Netscape in 2003. It was FireFox.
@cagv72975 ай бұрын
The music really adds to the nostalgia holy shit. Growing up, Eurodance / Trance were my favourite genres
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
I knooow! And I think it is still good to this day
@Povest13895 ай бұрын
Поздрав за Српску Спарту.
@Auhbseluhte5 ай бұрын
@@ZnifferN free stylah!! geah G!!! back when dating was random and dope af
@FearZa023 ай бұрын
What the first song name?
@ZnifferN3 ай бұрын
@@FearZa02 Eurodancer
@imohamed19895 ай бұрын
The best years of my life are from 2000 to 2018. Thank you for bringing back these memories. 😢😊
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Np
@JheryMorais5 ай бұрын
Cara, que nostalgia... se é loco, da até vontade de chorar, que tempo bom!!!
@warpdarkmatter4 ай бұрын
Usar a internet nessa época era uma experiência única, foi o auge do relacionamento sadio entre pessoas e computadores e não sabíamos disso.
@hartt14 ай бұрын
eu era mto mto feliz essa epoca
@mielkyyy4 ай бұрын
Tempos que a internet era um "local" que acessávamos/visitávamos de vez em quando, hoje vivemos dentro dela...
@JheryMorais4 ай бұрын
@@warpdarkmatter exatamente cara
@JheryMorais4 ай бұрын
@@hartt1 eu tbm em
@xarros5 ай бұрын
This is messing with my emotions. The amount of nostalgia crammed in a single video is too damn high!!! love it
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@theharshtruthoutthere5 ай бұрын
@@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.
@THIRTEENTH13TH4 ай бұрын
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
@thebigcheese81694 ай бұрын
@@theharshtruthoutthere did you escape the psych ward or something?
@theharshtruthoutthere4 ай бұрын
@@thebigcheese8169 so aint we all live in it? earth, if not earlier, then since 2020, filled with psychos.
@blehbleheh5 ай бұрын
There were few things more exciting than connecting to a multiplayer server and seeing the "Sending Client Info" loading screen.
@TheSorsastaja1874 ай бұрын
That was source. In 1.6 it was and is "Precaching resources"
@muheetkhanop2 ай бұрын
Yeah Probably......😅
@BouncyStickman4 ай бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed every last second of that! Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)
@cabecadepedrabr4 ай бұрын
Windows xp, orkut, msn, inicio do KZfaq, 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.
@DiffGeoTopo5 ай бұрын
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
@vitigaymer10532 ай бұрын
Same here. Would spend hours playing Solitaire, Pinball and Minesweeper. Crazy how easy it was to have fun back then 😂
@Verociity4 күн бұрын
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.
@gunnercat80455 ай бұрын
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!
@rundattmedia21065 ай бұрын
It was amazing. I was a teen in the late 90's. Good times.
@phunkracy5 ай бұрын
steam was trash back then. people hated it lol
@NateDohDoubleGee5 ай бұрын
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!
@PortoAlvarez5 ай бұрын
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.
@rundattmedia21065 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Three60MafiaАй бұрын
4:43 surprise appearance by Freestyler hit me right in my euro feels
@TrimbyGaming2 ай бұрын
the nostalgia! also loving your music selection here
@mufmager5 ай бұрын
I was 2 years old by then so I never could experience this, but it feels so nostalgic and warm.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@vividclarities78604 ай бұрын
It was more than a month before I was born when Steam launched (born in Nov. 5) but I feel the same too
@isaacalexisrivera31574 ай бұрын
too crazy
@Marulol014 ай бұрын
yo im 22y too
@DarkohStyle4 ай бұрын
im 22 too, i feel the same!
@railworksamerica5 ай бұрын
I miss old GUI styles, where nothing was oversimplified
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Meee2 But I like the mid 05 more
@izperehoda5 ай бұрын
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.
@aspirewot84085 ай бұрын
@@izperehodait's what normal people want idk about u 😂 this old thing was sht
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@@izperehoda true
@MaoTao5 ай бұрын
@@aspirewot8408 fuck normal ppl lol
@KozeMoto974 ай бұрын
Thanks for bring me back in my schooldays , amazing moments ♥
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Thats good
@TheRamblingSoul2 ай бұрын
Oh my god, nostalgia straight into my veins! You really went above and beyond with the presentation, bravo!
@unbridledenthusiasm5 ай бұрын
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.
@ArrBee15 ай бұрын
Yes! Little did we know they would carve an empire that would change the way we play games forever
@randomstranger_35 ай бұрын
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.
@slimeprivilege5 ай бұрын
@@randomstranger_3 if steam went away then you'd lose access to all your games numb nuts
@xplore73595 ай бұрын
I used workarounds until HL2 and source launched
@sandmaenchen5 ай бұрын
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.
@krognak2 ай бұрын
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.
@veneratlazulum20332 ай бұрын
Thank you for this lovely time capsule! :D
@bellstat82855 ай бұрын
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!
@iz58085 ай бұрын
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).
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much
@weeeeelp5 ай бұрын
@@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.
@smoli5 ай бұрын
You'll never understand just exactly what you missed. You are using what I would consider a corpse.
@dannyuwu86275 ай бұрын
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
@oliverladykillerbiscuit5 ай бұрын
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!
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@dirtybongwater57514 ай бұрын
ACTUALLY I was 3 in 2003 so they wouldn't let me attend the 5th grade, better luck next time buster
@itzdm0r34 ай бұрын
2003 I was finishing high school and omw to college 😂
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Hehe:D You playd 1.6 when it came with Steam?@@itzdm0r3
@itzdm0r34 ай бұрын
@@ZnifferN no, I was too into Diablo and console emulation at the time.
@-PheonixАй бұрын
very nostalgic watching this. thank you for creating this video
@kingkraut469227 күн бұрын
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.
@agrvet15 ай бұрын
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
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@enderbreton81365 ай бұрын
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.
@ChutneyGames3 ай бұрын
I mean, they where definitely right, now you can't even play steam on an old OS without some finnagling
@PenguinEconomics-st2ws2 ай бұрын
Playing “instantly from the cd” is wrong. You literally just said you had to install it lol
@nay0r5 ай бұрын
msn, winamp, windowws xp, early steam, cs whats not to love 100% brings back the memories
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you!!
@AmyLee-tl7ocАй бұрын
Good old times... Thank you for uploading this
@jhanpierre35612 ай бұрын
tus video son oro, me trae nostalgia de la buena ademas que enseñas como eran los videos en esos tiempos a las personas mas jovenes
@fab555trainspottingandmore5 ай бұрын
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
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@CommissarChaotic5 ай бұрын
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 KZfaq which is antithetical to KZfaq's ecology so to speak.
@TheTryingDutchman5 ай бұрын
Almost everything was better back than.. Less division. More happy people. More healthy people. Everything was way cheaper. I wish we could go back..
@fab555trainspottingandmore5 ай бұрын
@@TheTryingDutchman yes 😔
@EternalShadow16675 ай бұрын
@@TheTryingDutchmaneh, for what country? At the same time the US was going on a geopolitical power trip.
@Cornholio_X5 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Damn… Did you ever try the 2002 Steam beta?
@deaeth14115 ай бұрын
I want back to this time. We were happy and didn't knew.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@alfonsoespinoza12382 ай бұрын
These videos of yours are specific form of art that I enjoy. You got a new sub :)
@ZnifferN2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, Alfon!!
@a.gallardo43215 ай бұрын
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
@dimaknorr5 ай бұрын
*Hooray! New nostalgic video👍*
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
👌👌
@rodrigobrambilla47824 ай бұрын
That MSN notification sound activated something that was buried very deep in my brain, I got startled and confused for a moment, lol!
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Nice to hear that the video brings back memories!
@juliendurand14133 ай бұрын
Eurodancer , msn , old steam ... Man , I actually have tears in my eyes with nostalgia ... Thanks :')
@ZnifferN3 ай бұрын
Np, Julien
@frydemwingz5 ай бұрын
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.
@yasinozkan5 ай бұрын
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
@Agret5 ай бұрын
@@yasinozkanwhat's funny is that when they changed that now it won't even accept putting your email as your username, says invalid
@MrYoudie125 ай бұрын
and i thought my 11 years old account was very old
@psyOllie905 ай бұрын
i m at steam since Augfust 2004.. Was a great time back then for gaming@@MrYoudie12
@C4-LUDY.5 ай бұрын
@@MrYoudie1211 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.
@rodricbr5 ай бұрын
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
@aleksandersanya18175 ай бұрын
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.
@rodricbr4 ай бұрын
@@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
@AEGISAOE4 ай бұрын
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
@maxspechter43214 ай бұрын
It IS nostalgia though. But this is normal and it happens with everyone, any given generation will miss somethings from their teen years
@aleksandersanya18174 ай бұрын
@@maxspechter4321 no, you missed my point. I think the quality and the vibe were more positive. It’s my analysis, not the emotion.
@zNightmxre3 ай бұрын
This takes me back to when I used to use my mom's old windows computer when I was a kid.
@ZnifferN3 ай бұрын
@karoaziz27833 ай бұрын
IM so glad i was there for these times, logging on to AIM then geteting on cs
@miskee115 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Hmm… But they didnt shut down their won servers for CS before mid 04
@hugoooobr4 ай бұрын
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.
@laeamminlakana-matt56924 ай бұрын
@@hugoooobr 1.5, not 1.6, this is 10 or so years earlier
@vidmantasb59935 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@erkelsbroer70364 ай бұрын
I remember downloading metal gear solid 1 for 2 days straight hahaha, had like 560 kb/'s... good times nonetheless 😊
@MilezAwxy2 ай бұрын
This is my childhood right here. Counter Strike, GTA Vice City/San Andreas, MSN Messanger. Good times.
@Boundlxss_2 ай бұрын
do people realize that this is considered as a technological relic...I am so glad to be a part of that time....even though I was basically in kindergarten...man the games I played...The House of The Dead, Road Rash, NFS 2, Underground 2, Carbon, Doom, Tarzan, Original flash games that were not on the internet but rather small games with pink icons you played on your desktop...truly a beautiful period
@da_roachdogjr5 ай бұрын
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.
@laeamminlakana-matt56924 ай бұрын
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. ._.
@da_roachdogjr4 ай бұрын
@@laeamminlakana-matt5692 We really didn't progress much since then. If anything we regressed. 😮💨
@MrOwnerxD5 ай бұрын
today kids will never understand the internet cafes playing vibes. IT WAS SUCH A GREAT ERA..
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@purrplekitten48954 ай бұрын
I just remembered I got HL2 back in 2004 (I was 14 years old), and the game was on a DVD. At the time, I only had a CD drive, so I was sad I couldn't install the game. A couple days later my brother told me I can just activate the key in Steam and could download it there. While downloading / installing I was sooo hyped. :)
@DarthVerde.4 ай бұрын
Memory unlocked with success! Nostalgic! Thank you man.
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Np
@owen755 ай бұрын
Life was so simple lol. Take me back.
@coryy6505 ай бұрын
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. ❤
@Nemix13 күн бұрын
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
@RprtBakАй бұрын
Man I'll never forget looking for main/p scrims on irc... I still remember all the console commands. Recording first half, second half. Replaying them afterward, recording little gameplay montages with fraps... I still have my 20 year old steam account (5digit hype)... But none of my 1300+ games come even close to 1.6. It was the goat. I truly, genuinely miss it.
@SlaV05 ай бұрын
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!
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
And Thank you so much!!
@heramaaroricon47385 ай бұрын
This feels like a re-enactment of History.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@rangerjoe1262 ай бұрын
I remember I don't own a computer nor have internet at home but I experienced these things on the school PC and internet cafes man those are good times
@truth84832 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN2 ай бұрын
Np
@lilwyvern45 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@FreagaZ5 ай бұрын
I remember moving from WON to Steam and I hated the change. There were memes about skeletons with cobwebs waiting forever for steam loading screen etc. Ahhh the nostalgia.
@damiankrzemienowski82632 ай бұрын
10/10 music really brought me back tysm!
@ZnifferN2 ай бұрын
Thanks^^
@Sgt_Bacon1892 ай бұрын
I could cry seeing this video. I grew up during this exact time and the internet was such a miracle. I lived in a small town in Europe and not a lot of people had really good internet access or bandwidth. It was such a mysterious thing back then, then all the limewire shenanigans that slowly came in, what a time to be alive. Plus the memories of booting up your Gamecube or PS2, man.
@3l35 ай бұрын
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❤❤
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Np
@rob300zx5 ай бұрын
Great video...That MSN notification just hits different.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
For sure….:/
@AwesomeRepix5 ай бұрын
Having all your class mates in the friends list.. Oh man
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
@@AwesomeRepix + waitin for your crush to log in
@AwesomeRepix5 ай бұрын
@@ZnifferN damn truth
@sinaighani2349Ай бұрын
Oh my!! brought me back to the 90s and 2000s,,, used to play FIFA 2005, GTA Vice City, Counter Strike 1.6.. Good old days!
@ZnifferNАй бұрын
Good old days!
@presatamhl4 ай бұрын
Watching this unlocked some deep forgotten memories about this era. I literally went back in time.
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
I hope you liked the video :)
@presatamhl4 ай бұрын
@@ZnifferN Bro, not only I liked the video I fell in love with it. That was amazing
@nake895 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Wow
@matthewclevenger40375 ай бұрын
21 actually
@AllGamingStarred5 ай бұрын
ah the good ol days. Steam needs to bring this menu style back
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Dont think they will
@void78375 ай бұрын
you can download a skin lol
@urphakeandgey63082 ай бұрын
I remember playing lots of Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver as a small child on XP. Got into steam closer to the 2010s. What's funny is the music is the most nostalgic part for me. I still listen to stuff like this.
@JahtiXD5 ай бұрын
damn, i'm 21-years old and i still remember using Windows XP back then when i was around 5-8 years old. I only played flash games and watched KZfaq on it. Kinda sad that i couldn't explore it enough because i was just a little kid back then and didn't know anything about computers xd
@PleaseStopMe13375 ай бұрын
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
@PleaseStopMe13375 ай бұрын
@@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
@PleaseStopMe13375 ай бұрын
@@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
@PleaseStopMe13375 ай бұрын
@@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
@macdaniel60295 ай бұрын
No, when steam came out 1.5 was way better. We got used to steam eventually but I still miss WON sometimes.
@PleaseStopMe13375 ай бұрын
@@macdaniel6029 I personally dont really miss them but I guess eventually people get used to better things
@Zeikid5 ай бұрын
back when it didn't suffice to be a casual gamer. You had to know stuff xD
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
True haha
@ClassicAirsoft4 ай бұрын
Nice ! Thanks for that ! That brings back the memory of my childhood =) !!
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Np, Airsoft
@alexito1314152 ай бұрын
This take me back 15 years on time
@AyataHiragi5 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Im glad it did
@lucasc10355 ай бұрын
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
@lucasc10355 ай бұрын
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
@lucasc10355 ай бұрын
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
@lucasc10355 ай бұрын
but now is called skype. Same program but with another style.
@ITRIEDEL5 ай бұрын
Nailed the simulated experience- only difference was webpages didn’t load that fast haha 😂 Super cool though. Lots of memories.
@macdaniel60295 ай бұрын
In fact they did. At least with DSL. If you still had dial-up internet in the 2000s you messed up big time.
@Denis-Maldonado5 ай бұрын
@@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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@MiBrCo41772 ай бұрын
omfg this brings me back! thank you kind stranger for letting me relive some nostalgia amongst the mundane everyday of adulthood.
@ZnifferN2 ай бұрын
Np man
@thedeveIoper2 ай бұрын
God damn nostalgia hit me like a truck. There was something special about those days
@ZnifferN2 ай бұрын
@VanBourner4 ай бұрын
Unticking Ricochet without second thought :D
@Nevatric4 ай бұрын
Nobody plays Ricochet.
@timber7405 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Hehe! Thank you so much, Sir!
@De6d4 ай бұрын
some good ol nostalgia. life was really simple when i was younger
@hcsvntdracones57264 ай бұрын
For some reason I never got the chance to enjoy the bliss of playing 1.6 or similar games with friends when I was younger. Right now I am 28 and I decided to enjoy every videogame my PC can run, no matter how old the title is. I am conscious the feeling won't be the same as before, but at least I will be happy experiencing these games for the first time.
@Christianssj4-Gaming4 ай бұрын
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.
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
@thedylansang5 ай бұрын
Kinda wish I could do this myself, but can't really bring myself to do it just because the forum wants me to create an account to access links as well as the person behind the project wanting users to join their Discord, which I don't feel like doing. I still really wish Steam was still like this. All of that green interface that gives the client more of a system feel, even still used by the GoldSrc games today! Not that overmodernized, slow Steam client which depends on an embedded browser framework with a storefront open to third-party developers.
@SpacePoodle4 ай бұрын
You have created a wonderful retro work of art here. Bravo!
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@bully_charlie2 ай бұрын
Maaan the nostalgica and those beats. Good ol times. Damn…
@ksspqf60163 ай бұрын
The old windows has so much more heart to it
@ZnifferN3 ай бұрын
Yeahh!
@cosmetolog__d5 ай бұрын
Man, you hit right into nostalgia ❤
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
Im glad it did
@adamcomerford85022 ай бұрын
That button and input styling is burned into my brain. Crazy how recent this feels when seeing it.
@edmo145024 күн бұрын
that Ventrilo icon just smacked me with Nostalgia TOO HARD
@perfectenrager5 ай бұрын
Looks pretty dope for 2003!
@ZnifferN5 ай бұрын
It really does!
@Canal_das_Loirinhas_supremas4 ай бұрын
i'm here before this video hit 1M views
@ZnifferN4 ай бұрын
Lets hope it hits 1m one day :D
@dannystumpf321Ай бұрын
the xfire icon oh man this brings me back
@Calikal092 ай бұрын
I would have liked to be born in the 90s and know everything that was available at that time, I feel that it was much better, it cannot be compared to what it is today, it had its special touch, I would have loved to know everything that was fashionable about those times of the 90s and 2000s, as I do today in 2024 (without a doubt the 80s, 90s and the beginning of the 2000s were the best in the world)😢👌