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Steam hasn't been popular for 20 years, my dude. 20 years ago, Steam was LOATHED. I'm not gonna google it because I'm at work, but you can find a gif of the Steam logo performing anal on a bent-over dude.
10-15 years ago it was still fairly common to avoid Steam on purpose. I personally started using it actively maybe 6-7 years ago, but I've been gaming for just a bit over 20.
We can argue all day over when steam "got popular". For me, I'd consider the launch of HL2 to be the most reasonable point in time to choose.
I believe that was the time it was hated the most because it was forced on people
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.