"Valve Honors 20 Years of Steam with Exclusive Digital Badges for Longest-Running Users"
Steam is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its oldest user accounts by giving out special digital badges featuring the original Steam color scheme. Some of these accounts are still actively in use today. Steam, which opened in September 2003, has become the largest digital PC gaming storefront in the world, with millions of daily users. The badges prompted mixed reactions from players who remembered the platform's earliest days, with some reminiscing about the game Counter-Strike, which played a significant role in attracting early users to Steam.