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Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

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Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

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The first public Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier.

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My steam account is from September 2003. A couple weeks after its launch

CS 1.6 and generally HL1 and mods were the first (replacing WON for multiplayer matching)

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