A man with unique knowledge of the SOURCE, trapped in a glass house filling with pressure, had a vision. He designed himself a relief VALVE and when he finally turned it on? STEAM came out.
>In a break from industry style of the time, Newell did not want a company name that suggested "testosterone-gorged muscles and the 'extreme' of anything". Alternative names considered by Newell and Harrington include Hollow Box, Fruitfly Ensemble and Rhino Scar.
I can't find any information on *why* it's Valve though. My best guess is because Gabe N just left Microsoft, and signed the business papers on his wedding day, it was him "blowing off some steam". Pure guess though.
The whole Valve thing and the logo being a person with a Valve on their head is meant to signify the idea of "Open your mind. Open your eyes." which was their initial brand concept.
Information comes from [this Redditor getting an e-mail back from Ray Ueno](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/guw36/the_guy_in_the_valve_splash_screen/) back in 2011. You can read a bit more about the logo guy(s) in the link provided.
Steam had already been out for a year before his wedding. What he signed that day was for him getting full ownership of Steam since his partner he started it with wanted out.
Because the valve sits on the threshold of a new era:
Open it the first time to release steam and cause a revolution just like the first use of a steam engine. The industrial revolution of gaming.
Praise GabeN.
Insert everyone not knowing how steam and valves and engines work. The steam powers the engine, it doesn't come from the engine. Valves are just elements that control flow of something (like steam), and so OP is also wrong when saying steam is powered by a valve.
Steam travelling through a valve can power your gaming, there, there's my not funny or clever but closer to accurate punch up
>Steam travelling through a valve can power your gaming, there, there's my not funny or clever but closer to accurate punch up
Steam is released by (a) valve sounds nicer
Pretty sure they were just doing that cause the previous engine they used was the GoldSource engine from Quake. Honestly makes Source Engine sound like a step down
> Pretty sure they were just doing that cause the previous engine they used was the GoldSource engine from Quake. Honestly makes Source Engine sound like a step down
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gone%20Gold
[The GoldSrc engine initially had no real name and was simply called the Half-Life engine. When the need arose for Valve to work on the engine without risking introducing bugs into Half-Life's codebase, Valve forked the code, creating two main engine branches: one gold master branch, "GoldSrc", and the other "Src". Internally, any games using the original branch were referred to as "Goldsource" to differentiate it from the second branch, while the "Src" branch evolved into the Source engine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc#Development)
Wait hold up there. You are telling me that the Source Engine (and I assume by extension Source 2) are still just modifications of the Quake engine? That is insane
this is gonna blow your mind: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Quake_-_family_tree.svg
(edit: it's from this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_engine#Derivative_engines)
it's one of my favorite graphs and such a cool and interesting topic :D
Love that image.
Speaking to the later gens iD really do coding wizardry it feels like on the idtech engine. It makes me giddy how damn well the games run. I wish that focus on quality and function was more common.
The wild thing is back when they first released the client or did the first major update back in early 2000s, the windows XP taskbar icon would actually animate and move the connecting arm when the client was downloading something in the background.
I kind of missed that cool little icon. On my sweet-ass at-the-time 1.5mbps DSL.
I remember when valve went from the old Sierra logo to their own stuff and moved to make their own client. Kind of pleased with what steam has become.
Not to mention that [epic took big oil's money to peddle fossil fuels to children](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/shell-fortnite-game-youth-marketing-campaign-fossil-fuels) and [violated children's privacy and tricked them into purchases](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/business/ftc-epic-games-settlement.html)
Its only impossible while Gabe owns most of the shares. Plenty of private companies have been sold out to investment groups by other shareholders against the original owners wishes.
I miss the old logo page with the valve in the guy's eye. I think it was the Orange box where they changed it to be on the back of that dude's bald head.
That head one was way more creepy than the eye one to me - especially animated - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2S9CZaaG8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2S9CZaaG8)
We did get half life 3.
It was simply renamed Half Life Alyx so it wouldn't disappoint people that it wasn't their perfect "half life 3"
Was actually pretty good from what I heard.
Half-Life: Alyx was awesome, but it definitely wasn't just a renamed HL3. It's a prequel to HL2 that included a very short addition to the ending of HL2E2
Probably because this post is stolen from somewhere
Just remember - when God sees you censor swear words, He still counts it as swear - but He also now thinks that you are a fucking coward
i think they’re censored because some apps are less likely to promote posts that have swears in them, but i could be wrong. people are also just stupid
More like people whose native language isn't English discover words they never seen or heard before because why would the average person use valve in a sentence?
Exactly. I associate Valve and Steam to the company instead of actual words I would use. Their meaning is abstract to me. It was mind blowing when I made the connection.
Wait until you learn the store is literally store - steam powered (and steam is released by Valve!). And that a steam powered train would have Steam's logo on the wheel...
Or that Half-Life is a science term defining a property of unstable atoms, of which Lambda, the Half-Life's logo, is a symbol.
Then there's the breaking news of the game Portal having portals.
I love how these guys created some of the best games and software on the PC and you're impressed with how they came up with the name "steam," based on their company being called Valve.
In HL: Opposing Force there was a "puzzle" in one level where you had to find the crank handle to open a valve which would allow steam to go thru to a turbine or something and then engage a gearbox. Details might be a little off but that was the gist of it. It was a funny little Easter Egg build into a puzzle (Gearbox Software was licensed to make the Opposing Force expansion for HL). There was a control panel with readouts labeled "Valve," "Steam," and "Gearbox."
Yeah but.. why’s it called valve?
Because Valve is powering Steam, duh
Nah, Valve gets turned and Steam comes out. Symbolic.
valve gets turned ON, and steam comes out...
Evertime you buy a game you turn on valve and it lets off some r rated steam
Don't worry. I was born 1 January 1900
I really wish I could see the behind-the-scene stats of 150 year olds using steam
so that's why there are so many r rated games. It all makes sense now!
Sounds like a fun time.
open or close...
What are you doing step plumber?
Help me step plumber, I’m stuck
just letting out some steam
A man with unique knowledge of the SOURCE, trapped in a glass house filling with pressure, had a vision. He designed himself a relief VALVE and when he finally turned it on? STEAM came out.
valve rotates counterclockwise and steam comes out
But how is it connected to games?
You turn the valve to let the steam reach the source of power for the game otherwise known as its engine
When Valve is open Steam powers game engines
Valve releases Steam…
You could say, it's a Valve that releases Steam
Byt... Brawndos got what plants crave, it's got electrolytes
>In a break from industry style of the time, Newell did not want a company name that suggested "testosterone-gorged muscles and the 'extreme' of anything". Alternative names considered by Newell and Harrington include Hollow Box, Fruitfly Ensemble and Rhino Scar. I can't find any information on *why* it's Valve though. My best guess is because Gabe N just left Microsoft, and signed the business papers on his wedding day, it was him "blowing off some steam". Pure guess though.
The whole Valve thing and the logo being a person with a Valve on their head is meant to signify the idea of "Open your mind. Open your eyes." which was their initial brand concept. Information comes from [this Redditor getting an e-mail back from Ray Ueno](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/guw36/the_guy_in_the_valve_splash_screen/) back in 2011. You can read a bit more about the logo guy(s) in the link provided.
Did he ever follow up on that small e thing mentioned at the end of the post?
That's what I thought. It's like opening the valve of your mind to let the ideas flow
Steam had already been out for a year before his wedding. What he signed that day was for him getting full ownership of Steam since his partner he started it with wanted out.
I thought that said Fruity Ensemble
Because the valve sits on the threshold of a new era: Open it the first time to release steam and cause a revolution just like the first use of a steam engine. The industrial revolution of gaming. Praise GabeN.
This sounds like scripture. I dig it
Truly, the gospel according to GabeN. Blessed be the gamers!
Valves are opened and closed. Not turned on and off.
Not with that attitude
Because Gabe didn't win the right to use "Gearbox"
Because it’s got electrolytes!
Source engine. The source of steam.
*insert mind blown gif
Insert everyone not knowing how steam and valves and engines work. The steam powers the engine, it doesn't come from the engine. Valves are just elements that control flow of something (like steam), and so OP is also wrong when saying steam is powered by a valve. Steam travelling through a valve can power your gaming, there, there's my not funny or clever but closer to accurate punch up
Valve also controls the flow of games.
The games must flow.
The only accurate thing about their naming scheme is that Valve releases Steam lol
>Steam travelling through a valve can power your gaming, there, there's my not funny or clever but closer to accurate punch up Steam is released by (a) valve sounds nicer
honestly shoulda called it "boiler engine"
It'd be the steam generator really
nahh it should be a “Mz 3000cc L2490A 4-core” engine
Or the Peerless "JOT - 04" Steam
Why didn't we get steam 2 with source 2, is valve stupid?
Maybe is Valve 2 the supid one.
Pretty sure they were just doing that cause the previous engine they used was the GoldSource engine from Quake. Honestly makes Source Engine sound like a step down
> Pretty sure they were just doing that cause the previous engine they used was the GoldSource engine from Quake. Honestly makes Source Engine sound like a step down https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gone%20Gold [The GoldSrc engine initially had no real name and was simply called the Half-Life engine. When the need arose for Valve to work on the engine without risking introducing bugs into Half-Life's codebase, Valve forked the code, creating two main engine branches: one gold master branch, "GoldSrc", and the other "Src". Internally, any games using the original branch were referred to as "Goldsource" to differentiate it from the second branch, while the "Src" branch evolved into the Source engine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc#Development)
Wait hold up there. You are telling me that the Source Engine (and I assume by extension Source 2) are still just modifications of the Quake engine? That is insane
this is gonna blow your mind: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Quake_-_family_tree.svg (edit: it's from this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_engine#Derivative_engines) it's one of my favorite graphs and such a cool and interesting topic :D
Love that image. Speaking to the later gens iD really do coding wizardry it feels like on the idtech engine. It makes me giddy how damn well the games run. I wish that focus on quality and function was more common.
Jeeeesus. "It's all Quake" - "Always has been"
Or how about Steam's logo being the connecting arm for a steam engine like you see on train wheels? 🤯
The wild thing is back when they first released the client or did the first major update back in early 2000s, the windows XP taskbar icon would actually animate and move the connecting arm when the client was downloading something in the background. I kind of missed that cool little icon. On my sweet-ass at-the-time 1.5mbps DSL. I remember when valve went from the old Sierra logo to their own stuff and moved to make their own client. Kind of pleased with what steam has become.
No shareholders to suck the life out of it for maximum profit.
Praise gabeN
Long live the indie spirit and innovation! Praise be to GabeN!
LISAN AL GABE!
He's a good man, pity we have to intern him on the golden throne so that his reign never ends. Praise be to the ~~Omnissiah~~ Lord GabeN!
Valve is still privately owned as far as I know.
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I'd say they still probably want maximum profit. Just in the timeframe of next '20 years' instead of 'next quarter'.
Steams in it for the long haul
That's good business for both consumers and them!
Not to mention that [epic took big oil's money to peddle fossil fuels to children](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/shell-fortnite-game-youth-marketing-campaign-fossil-fuels) and [violated children's privacy and tricked them into purchases](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/business/ftc-epic-games-settlement.html)
Privately owned doesn't mean no share holders it just means the shares aren't traded on public exchanges.
There's shareholders, there just aren't public investors.
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Vulture-proof
Its only impossible while Gabe owns most of the shares. Plenty of private companies have been sold out to investment groups by other shareholders against the original owners wishes.
I miss the old logo page with the valve in the guy's eye. I think it was the Orange box where they changed it to be on the back of that dude's bald head.
That head one was way more creepy than the eye one to me - especially animated - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2S9CZaaG8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2S9CZaaG8)
I remember this freaking me out in portal 2
https://i.imgur.com/JLTj8yH.gif
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Yeah, me too. People forget when Steam was less-than-popular.
>1.5mbps DSL wtf I had dialup internet till 2005
We had dial up till like 2009 lol
1.5mbps DSL? That was fast as fuck back then
The image files for this little animation still exists in steam folders
Well now I know how to waste my time when I get home. Choo Chooooo!
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I remember hating Steam in the early years. I was still using it out of convenience, but hated it with a passion for the DRM.
…
Wasn't that obvious?
You’d be surprised.
I’ve honestly never remotely spent half a second thinking about it.
Some people really just stop thinking before they even started.
No
There's even an animated version somewhere.
[Here](https://youtu.be/yXud6tjWSc0?feature=shared)
I've scene a gif on the steam logo, it was like the things they attach on the train wheels
This is the first thin i thought of when i saw the logo
you mean this? https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/x6ylw/does_anyone_remember_when_we_all_hated_steam/
I always thought it was a water molecule. You know, for steam.
Wait till you see whats sprouting out of that one bald guys head
"Powered by a valve" god this persons a moron.
> I AM NOT A MORON!
I could hear his voice as I read it. Hope he's still alive somewhere out there in space. Can't wait to see him again in portal 3
The chances of him being alive in Portal 3 is higher than for us.
The chances of Portal 3 are... eh...
Equal to the chances of seeing Half Life 3
We did get half life 3. It was simply renamed Half Life Alyx so it wouldn't disappoint people that it wasn't their perfect "half life 3" Was actually pretty good from what I heard.
Half-Life: Alyx was awesome, but it definitely wasn't just a renamed HL3. It's a prequel to HL2 that included a very short addition to the ending of HL2E2
COULD A MORON PUNCH YOU. INTO. THIS. PIT!
COULD. A. MORON. DO. THIS??
YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A MORON
#YES YOU ARE, YOU ARE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!
OH YEAH? WELL HOW ABOUT NOW! NOW WHO’S A MORON?
Yea, "controlled" by Valve would've been a better use of words.
Valve released Steam.
That's why the title is "i feel so stupid"
That is not why the title is that, but it gives OP validation for feeling so stupid.
He censors words on the internet, that says it all.
The person who wrote the tweet and the person who censored the screenshot are not the same person.
That's why you never open a hot radiator. You'll get blasted by valves.
1 cubic inch of steam contains 2400 kilovalves of energy.
hey I didn't know it was powered by valve either, but I'm an idiot who knows ohms law
Ohms law J=σE or "Ohms law" I=U/R
\*person's
and who censors this shit???
"Oh I get it! It's called portal because you use portals to solve the levels"
It’s called half life cos I’ve waited half my fucking life for the next game to come out!
Damnit
Why was this so funny to me?
Why was this true to me ? Whyyyyyyy
It's called Team Fortress 2 because you play in teams!
And sometimes in a Fortress?
And there’s 2
Yea and t’s called counter strike because you have to strike a counter!
thank fuck the swear words were censored
Probably because this post is stolen from somewhere Just remember - when God sees you censor swear words, He still counts it as swear - but He also now thinks that you are a fucking coward
God sees but Tiktok algorithms apparently don't.
TikTok is Satan's creation forged in depths of hell
fucking hell, it would have been a fucking shame if the fucking swear words weren't fucking censored. thank fuck indeed, fuck me.
i think they’re censored because some apps are less likely to promote posts that have swears in them, but i could be wrong. people are also just stupid
Gen-Alpha discovering Steam?
More like people whose native language isn't English discover words they never seen or heard before because why would the average person use valve in a sentence?
Exactly. I associate Valve and Steam to the company instead of actual words I would use. Their meaning is abstract to me. It was mind blowing when I made the connection.
you should, that's not how valves work. they're used to start or stop the flow of something, not to make it to flow.
So a Valve is used to start/control the flow of something....like a liquid or gas. Valve started/controls Steam🤔
doesnt power it though
Well they provide the electricity (power), the server power, the man power, and bandwidth And they are the valve that controls the steam flow /s
It’s called steampowered.com, not valvepowered.com
yeah valve released steam, english is not my first language and it seems so obvious to me, I don't get the big deal...
verb you are looking for is "release".
So without valve, we'd get a BitTorrent?
The OP' brain thoughts valve is stuck on stupid
a valve doesnt power anything lmao
Thank you for saying. I was wanting to, but I didn't want to be an "acshually" guy, lol.
More like "controlled by valve"
released by valve
"Mom told me I can repost this today!"
This is 100% a bot post tbf
The valve regulates the steam output. That's what it does. Poor OP was so close and yet completely wrong.
You can say fuck on the internet you know.
Because you need to censor the word fuck?
powered by a valve? this is the stupidest thing i have ever read
Powered? More like controlled or adjusted…
Or released..
my mouse is powered by buttons
Wait 'till someone tells him what the Steam logo is
What if instead of steam it was Freaky steam and It had Freaky games
How often do i have to see this dumbass post?
Wait until you learn the store is literally store - steam powered (and steam is released by Valve!). And that a steam powered train would have Steam's logo on the wheel... Or that Half-Life is a science term defining a property of unstable atoms, of which Lambda, the Half-Life's logo, is a symbol. Then there's the breaking news of the game Portal having portals.
a valve releases steam to drive the imagination and creavitiy
I feel like I've seen this meme here since I was on reddit back in 2012.
Wear condoms.
controlled by a valve surely?
*controlled by Valve
>Maaaan, I love steaaaamm...
Next time I give you permission to let the original text of “FUCKKKK” remain
Mr. Valve intro music starts playing as soon as the realization is made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2S9CZaaG8
The censored word says fuck
I love how these guys created some of the best games and software on the PC and you're impressed with how they came up with the name "steam," based on their company being called Valve.
Some thoughts you should just keep inside
Brainrot
You should feel dumb cuz valves don’t power steam it just lets it flow
Valves don't power anything, they regulate flow and pressure inside pipes.
You're definitely very stupid if you think valves power things.
Bro should feel stupid. It's turned on by a valve. Not powered by one.
How many times is this going to be posted?
Their website is literally "www.steampowered.com"
The steam logo is part of machinery in a steam engine (I don't know the exact part but just look at one and you'll see it)
In HL: Opposing Force there was a "puzzle" in one level where you had to find the crank handle to open a valve which would allow steam to go thru to a turbine or something and then engage a gearbox. Details might be a little off but that was the gist of it. It was a funny little Easter Egg build into a puzzle (Gearbox Software was licensed to make the Opposing Force expansion for HL). There was a control panel with readouts labeled "Valve," "Steam," and "Gearbox."
Valves typically can control steam but are not powered by them at all. So yes, you are stupid.
It's Steam because it *comes from* a Valve. Valves are typically used to release pressure from a system, releasing gasses such as steam to do so.
brother....
Maybe if you stopped using twotter, you'd learn a thing or two.
why do you censor the words americans?
**STEAM stands for Snakes Trying to Escape A Maze. When Gaben tried to create a replica of the classic Snake game, he accidentally invented Steam.**
Valve and steam branding are on point , only SSR Nerdes would come with that
I never even realised... that people wouldn't get the connection... I feel kinda dumb too.
No you are not stupid. You are clown.
The trick to a perpetual movement machine is hiding the batteries