Steam.com

:Not to be confused with Steampowered.com
Steam.com was a website founded in 1994 by Steam Tunnel Operations, an organization or a company based in San Francisco with Internet professionals who wanted to help users made the most of their presence on the Internet.
==Services==
The website claimed that Steam Tunnel Operations provided internet services, such as:
*UNIX and NT server installation, tuning, and maintenance
*Web server installation and configuration
*Electronic commerce
*E-Mail integration
Network design:
*Design based on customer needs and resources
*Troubleshooting and optimization of existing installations
*Network expansion and integration
*LAN to WAN connectivity
Security service:
*Risk assessment and policy development
*Firewall installation and configuration
*Dial-up PPP servers
*Authentication technology
System integration:
*Corporate e-mail solutions
*Database connectivity
*PC/Macintosh and UNIX connectivity
*Automation and scripting
*System administration
While Steam Tunnel Operations provided multiple services beside these, there were no known records of these services, which the website said.https://web.archive.org/web/20020402004216/http://www.steam.com/services/
The website used Apache HTTP Server and OpenSSL to run itself, maintained by Steam Tunnel Operations.https://web.archive.org/web/20080929040743/http://www.steam.com/
==History==
The website is registered and launched in 1994. It began with a picture of a man climbing the ladder.https://web.archive.org/web/19961227144652/http://www.steam.com/
In 1997, Steam Tunnel Operations rewrote its website. The web page showcases a paragraph claiming that "your browser does not support the host directive. Please upgrade your browser to a HTTP 1.1 compliant browser." and a list of home pages of multiple individual websites: alderaan.com, kebe.com, klownhaus.norgThe correct domain name was klownhaus.org, and the original text in the page was misspelled., murder.com, SBAY.ORG, steam.com (itself) and toaster.net.https://web.archive.org/web/19971222061717/http://steam.com/
In 2000, Steam Tunnel Operations reverted its website back to its original version. https://web.archive.org/web/20000510110412/http://www.steam.com/ In 2003, the web page was blanked with white, emptying everything on the page.https://web.archive.org/web/20030529190828/http://www.steam.com/
In 2004, the website was rewritten again, covered with an image saying bouhous and a paragraph saying "Steam.com is the former home of Steam Tunnel Operations.", indicating that Steam Tunnel Operations either moved to their new websites or didn't maintain their web pages anymore.https://web.archive.org/web/20040801000000/http://www.steam.com/ Afterwards, another paragraph, "this domain is not for sale", was added to the website to convince domain purchasers that the domain was not for sale.https://web.archive.org/web/20071001022611/http://www.steam.com/
After June 2008,https://web.archive.org/web/20080625062255/http://www.steam.com/ the website was offline due to a presumed server issue. It was later reinstated in the next 4 months.https://web.archive.org/web/20081029225056/http://www.steam.com/
In 2011, the website's background color was turned into white and the image was removed. In October 2016, the website was shut down. 
In 2021, 5 years after the website was shut down, Steam Tunnel Operations presumably transferred the domain name, steam.com, to Saw.com.https://web.archive.org/web/20210228073316/http://steam.com/ It was considered to be the future project. Later in July, Saw.com developers managed the domain to launch their website.https://web.archive.org/web/20210731192657/http://steam.com/ It had positive views on the substance containing water in gas phase, Steam. It was then covered with the background image of a train with a text to contact Saw.com.https://web.archive.org/web/20210831213919/http://steam.com/ It was shut down again in late-2022.
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