In his defense, in game server browsers were great back then. Steam, if I recall correctly, would require you to close the game every time you wanted to join a

In his defense, in game server browsers were great back then. Steam, if I recall correctly, would require you to close the game every time you wanted to join a new server. And game updates and downloads took so God damn long in the first year or so, compared to just downloading them yourself from one of a number of websites. There were memes about how bad it was. Took them like 2 years to sort it all out to get at least parity with download speeds, or maybe that was just because they eventually sunsetted the old systems for all of their games forcing you into the steam ecosystem.