r/Steam • u/Hairy_Application859 • 2d ago
Fluff Your Steam profile from 10 years ago might still be out there 💀
Imagine finding your old Steam profile from 2015 and seeing the cringe username and profile picture you thought were cool back then lmao.
Apparently there's a site called https://steamback.gg/ that lets you look up archived Steam profiles and see how they used to look years ago.
Kinda crazy how much nostalgia a simple Steam profile can bring back.
Anyone still using the same Steam account from 10+ years ago?
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u/LadyAelanu 2d ago
My one and only account is 16 years old lol
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u/Extreme996 RTX 4070 Ti Super | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 32GB DDR5 6000mhz 2d ago
Same :) For what game you created it? It was Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 in my case.
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u/LadyAelanu 2d ago
I have like...about 300 games. I have no clue which one was first anymore 🤣
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u/Mega_Pleb 2d ago
You can check by going to Steam Settings > Account Details > View Licences and Product Key Activations, then look at the end of the list.
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u/LadyAelanu 2d ago
Looks like it was 'Magicka Complete Pack'
November 20th, 2011
But I had created the account before that, likely to play free games.
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u/ballisticks 2d ago
I don't remember lol, my friend convinced me to get it and he made it sound like it was free games and I was a broke ass teen so I never used it for the first few years lol
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u/Prior-Effective-8647 1d ago
I made mine for dota2. It was still in beta back then and you had to have a code to make it work xD
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u/Kiu16 2d ago
Seems to be a wayback machine wrapper
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u/de_Mike_333 1d ago
Where it comes from
Live identity uses the public Steam Community page. History uses the Wayback Machine. steamback does not host Steam or rewrite the past.
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u/brjedi26 2d ago
Why would you create a new steam account? You'd lose access to all the games you'd bought on your old account unless you bought them again. That just seems like a bad plan.
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u/Capital_Paramedic261 2d ago
Nobody is doing this on purpose, probably people who created the account as kids/a lot of time ago and just forgot how to login
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u/FoxMeadow7 2d ago
I’ll admit that I might’ve done this primarily because, well, of the simple reason that you can’t change your login name. If only I had a satisfying one from the start. And had enough presence of mind to make one way back in 2005!
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u/Squircleton 1d ago
Why does your login name matter? Only you see it. It means nothing at all.
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u/SorryAboutMyFamily 2d ago
I've done it before. Never had steam, but bought my gf a copy of Skyrim because I thought she would like it. She didn't and I'd never played it on pc so I kept the account. Used it for years but hated the account name she chose even though you can change the displayed name.
So I made a new account and family shared my old account.
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u/Ecks30 I Use SteamOS 2d ago
I got "No Internet Archive snapshot exists for this profile." but my account is also 22 years old lol.
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u/TheLastOfGus 2d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah seems hit and miss. On my 23 year old account it had 0, on my 21 year old account it has 3 (inc current one). Two friends, both with 23 yo acc, one had 0 and one had 3 (inc current).
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u/thomaxzer 2d ago
for me it shows only back to 2022 even when i tried my friend who made his account a day after steam released
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u/nesnalica 2d ago
what do you mean still out there?
ofc its stilll there. Im using it.
its old enough to drink but valve keeps asking me for my age and blocks adult rated games.
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u/Salzir 1d ago edited 1d ago
Still using my account created on the 25th of December of 2004. My parents bought to me and my brother a new PC for Christmas with Half Life 2... Damn i'm old...
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u/These_Landscape4073 Joined 2012 1d ago
Been using my Steam account since 2014, and it was initially to play Terraria with a friend lol
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u/RedLemonSlice 16h ago
I know for sure my old Steam account is out there. I log in it every other day.
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u/itsyagirlJULIE 1d ago
I'm so tired of LLM tooltips on these random websites. They're more invested in sounding punchy and concise than actually clarifying wtf they mean in an easily parsable manner
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u/odellrules1985 1d ago
My Steam account is 23 years old. Got it when Half Life 2 launched from my old Radeon 9800 Pro.
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u/Mousettv 1d ago
I must have got the game late cause it came with Counter Strike Souce or something. I had like 6 disc's. But my Steam account is barely 21 years old.
I thought I had maybe another account because I was around when it was green.
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u/odellrules1985 1d ago
If I remember correctly I think Counter Strike Source came with Half Life 2. I don't remember paying for Counter Strike Source.
But it has been 23 years.
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u/Nova17Delta 2d ago
Im pretty sure my steam profile has been identical since i created it but thats mostly because i didnt use it until like 2017
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u/RunnerLuke357 2d ago
My Steam account from 2015 is still out there, it's because I'm actively using it and didn't get a VAC ban or lose access like a moron.
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u/No_Sand4852 1d ago
In a few months my account will be 20 years old :D
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u/DimeKhan 1d ago
Judging by your featured games, you have some darn good taste. Cheers bud! Mine is currently 12 year.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198139903726/1
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u/zeromadcowz 2d ago
Why would you have more than one account? Mine is 22 years old
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u/Moulefrites6611 1d ago
Well, I let my "friend" borrow my OG account for him to play cs 1.6. He cheated which got my account VAC banned. I installed Steam the night it was released. I can't even remember how many years ago that was
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u/Grade_A_Tech 16h ago
Well, I hope it's still out there, since I use it and it's almost 20 years old, lol
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u/Boring_Breakfast7690 2d ago
Anyone still using the same Steam account from 10+ years ago?
I am using the only Steam account I ever had , and its older than 10 years
unrelated, but get a newer Windows, you can get them for free
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u/AggieCridmus 2d ago
lol that’s the website, it makes it look like a desktop from that era
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u/Angel_TheSlime 2d ago
I’m 24 now but I inherited my dads steam account a little while back and it’s about 20 years old he’s 41
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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow 2d ago
My account is 21 years old, and is completely private. I got a half million steam points I'll never use to decorate my profile lol
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u/The_Cabrakan 2d ago
I still have my 13+ year old steam account and use it daily lol its crazy cuz I didnt do much PC gaming until a few years ago when I finally stopped bothering with consoles
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u/ProgrammerScientist 21h ago
I got rookie numbers my account is only 11 years old, my dads is 24🥲
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u/Narrow-Vermicelli-19 11h ago
Dont worry i lost my first steam acc and my 2nd is 13 or 14 xears old Old enough to make a steam account of its own but still There are always some tgat are older xD
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u/AmIAIOrNot 19h ago
12 years old account.. time does fly fast
10k hours on record which I mean compared to some people thats 1 game XD
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u/FrostwindLive 16h ago
Yup there are some people with dota 2, cs, and tf2 that have far beyond 10k hours and i genuinely dont understand it
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u/Disastrous-Dig9392 2d ago
had 2 accounts from ages ago, i was able to access the account i never knew i made lol (2014) but never was able to get my first og account (2012)
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u/Extreme996 RTX 4070 Ti Super | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 32GB DDR5 6000mhz 2d ago
I think that by 2015, I was already past my "cringe" phase. Even so, I’m curious what my account looked like between 2009 and 2012. I’m not even sure what username I used back then, because I was constantly trying to come up with something "more epic."
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u/Coucouoeuf 2d ago
The oldest record they have for me is 2008 for my 23 years old account. Back then, unsurprisingly, my Steam page was all about CS 1.6: my team *aAa* and my maps. Good old days!
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u/CannonballMack 2d ago
man, my profile pictures and names were cringe in 2005, 2015, and today. my present day account is a nostalgic look at the past.
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u/Accomplished-Leg6947 2d ago
I don’t remember at all what my old Steam account name used to be. Wish I could find it because I made it the day Steam was released, it’s an OG account
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u/chihuahuaOP 2d ago
I still remember pages and pages of "fuck STEAM" posts in CS getting deleted only to appear again the next day 😂.
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u/robapalm 2d ago
my steam account is about 10 months old. kept forgetting passwords to my personal accounts so I just used my brother's for a while
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u/Joseph_kusanagi217 2d ago
Just tried it out and not much has changed on my profile for 13 years. The only things changed were the profile pictures and my profile levels. Other than that, profile still the same.
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u/kensaiD2591 2d ago
Of course it’s still out there, I only have the one account. Why would you have more? Crazy world.
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u/RedSonja_ https://s.team/p/ntnd-mw 2d ago
For some reason your Steam back machine claims my profile was in French one year, Chinese other etc. Even i've had it English all along 23 years.
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u/SquilliamAfton818 2d ago
I know I had one back in 2014 or so just to play terraria and it's still tied to my mom's old email account.
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u/Lylidotir 2d ago
That does make me wonder what happened to the two Steam accounts I have lost... :(
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u/felesmiki 1d ago
My oldest one its 2013, but don't work, yet there is another one in 2016 and that one works, damn fallout 4 its old
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u/Time_Picture_3394 1d ago
My account is 21 years old got 1002 games. I hated Steam at first i just wanted to use a cd. Got it for half life 2.
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u/Steelix65385 1d ago
mines still vac banned from 2012 for cheating on left 4 dead or team fortress 2 lol i got caught instantly to gg everything on cs and tf2 thats what i get
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u/Pomodorosan 1d ago
I haven't changed my name since account creation and my profile picture since 2015
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u/Ecotech101 1d ago
My OG from 16+ years ago that I "forgot the password to" is seemingly a pretty active privated account with tons of name changes. Me thinks I didn't forget the password.
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u/Emphursis 1d ago
Everyone in the comments missing that this is showing your profile page from previous years.
I don’t think I’ve changed my name or picture since about 2011, and haven’t updated the description since 2020.
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u/Bulky-Advisor-4178 1d ago
Yeah, my old account still is named after by cat, in addition with a vac ban, it's a time capsule of 2011
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u/ViviSumAz 1d ago
I don't use it anymore, but recently I remembered my old account and decided to try and log in. I saw Skill Special Force 2 in my library, which made me nostalgic, unfortunately the servers shut down. Otherwise, I would've loved to play it again.
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u/Naxos84 1d ago
I have a 15+ years account. Changed my name like 3 or 4 times. So not a lot to see....
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u/Owaiz-Al-Rza 1d ago
one of the most fascinating thing i personally find is accepting the kind of cringe names and remembering it as something that helped me grow and become what i am today,
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u/voyagerfan5761 Valve: Somehow worse at counting than rabbits 1d ago
I tried mine, went to the earliest date offered (in 2013) and according to the archived copy I (🇺🇸) was German back then x)
As in the whole interface is in Deutsch
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u/JamPunk_ 1d ago
I found my Steam profile from 2017, I'm still trying to recover access, but I don't remember the original email, and that's all they're asking for. It was a free account, I didn't have money to buy games back then.
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u/Luckachka 1d ago
Mine is 14yo (and my first acc, secondary since, is from some more years ago) but thé oldest archive of it is from 2019 :c Thanks for sharing tho !
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u/Chicotones 20h ago
Yep, two accounts, one being 14 years old and the other one being 13 years old.
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u/Accomplished_Tax_119 17h ago
Member since 2012 here, but I haven't changed neither my username nor my password. I guess in still that cringey?
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u/Pizzaeggroll 10h ago
My account is from 2015. Just graduated high school, got out of boot camp, and bought a PC. Good times. Weirdly, "Sir, you're being hunted" was the first game I bought on the PC and just this year it will got a console release. Wild.
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u/itbytesbob 2d ago
Who has multiple steam accounts? I've had the same one for around 20 years...