old account names

[I Got The Moves Like Jagger]

do people that made their steam accounts about 18 years ago also have thier email address as the account name and why is this?

[nullable]

My account is almost 18 years old and I have a regular user name.

Although Steam was about a year old when I created my account, so I suppose the initial launch supported emails initially or as an option to username and then changed to rely solely on username when creating an account.

Although it was a long time ago, and I'm sure I wouldn't remember all the details of account creation. Perhaps email was an option still, but I opted for account name. Other people were bound to opt for email.

[I Got The Moves Like Jagger]

ah okay yeah, its just something i wanna see as well if there are others who made their accounts long ago and also have the email as the account name

[B-o-B]

Originally posted by I Got The Moves Like Jagger:

ah okay yeah, its just something i wanna see as well if there are others who made their accounts long ago and also have the email as the account name

Other than maliciously, why would a random gamer even wanna know such a thing?
It serves no purpose to you as a user to know the personal details of other user accounts, regardless of the age.
Unless they are interested in them, maliciously. ngl here.
Mind your own gaming business.
Other account names aren’t that business.

[my new friend]

Using the apparently tough to do on your own Google search,
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/882962698469135965/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/828933455981479876/

[nullable]

Originally posted by B-o-B:

Originally posted by I Got The Moves Like Jagger:

ah okay yeah, its just something i wanna see as well if there are others who made their accounts long ago and also have the email as the account name

Other than maliciously, why would a random gamer even wanna know such a thing?

People get curious about all sorts of things. Weird things, obscure things. Assuming malice because it's not something that concerns you may not always be rational.

Originally posted by B-o-B:

It serves no purpose to you as a user to know the personal details of other user accounts, regardless of the age.
Unless they are interested in them, maliciously. ngl here.
Mind your own gaming business.
Other account names aren’t that business.

You do you. If you think it's a problem, report the post.

Although this post does nothing to phish for info. It's not a secret every Steam user has some kinda user name. And knowing some users have an email for a user name doesn't get you anything. You know the user name for pretty much every email account on your contact list... oh no!

[I Got The Moves Like Jagger]

i am not trying to do anything harmful or do something, i just genuiely wanted to know if that is true , that people who have steam accounts from a long time ago if their account names were their emails, ive just been reading other discussions

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Mine is my college email that got deleted when I graduated. I came to that realization about 2 months before and got my contact email changed. I could have lost everything.