• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I believe that was the time it was hated the most because it was forced on people

    • ashok36@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I think we’re talking past each other. By ‘popular’ I do not mean ‘well liked’. Just that it was used by a lot of people. 2004, in my opinion, was when steam took off and the downloading updates from random websites phase of pc gaming died. There was a transition, to be sure, but the writing was on the wall. We just didn’t know it at the time.