Do you still have access to your email address?
If so, reset your password. They will send you a mail with your username in it.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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To add on to this, early steam accounts used your email address as the login name. So definitely try using that.
This is a good idea. Sadly, I don't have access to the email from twenty years ago, this makes it even harder.
You don't necessarily need access to the mail itself, if you know the password :)
Yes, this I understood. But there was the question from the original commenter @domi@lemmy.secnd.me which I tried to aim the second half at. I'll try to login with old email adresses :-)
Previous nicknames on profile page? Maybe it's something similar. Also, notifications and checks from steam to your email. You can trigger a new one with a cheap gift if you still has access to that address.
No access to my twenty year old mailadress anymore.. :-(
Go to the profile and look at the url, should be the very end of it.
Very early profiles don't always have this and only show the long steam ID.
Damn, that was my only idea. :(
Only the ID is shown.
If you haven't tried yet: paste your steamid on here https://steamdb.info/calculator/
Maybe it shows your account name.
Edit:
Also: if you by any chance redeemed a game by using a old cdkey and you still have it you could try the account recovering system.
I got my hacked account back this way.
MVP for reacting on this old thread.
I tried the calculator to no appeal. Sadly, as I've moved eight times (no exaggeration) since I've last used the account, I've thrown out all cds :-(
Damn, it's going to be tough.
Have you tried https://www.steamidfinder.com/ ? I don't think it would give more information than the calculator, but you can try.
What if you try adding the saving as a new friend? Maybe it will give some more information?