Half-Life 2 Beta is 15 years old!

[Витой]

It appears yesterday we missed an important date.
Exactly 15 years ago, October 1st 2003, one of the members of myg0t released the source code of Source engine, that earlier appeared in Usenet, on torrents. The source code was the first archive that became available for everyone, not just few chosen people.
This was only a beginning of the famous Valve servers leak, thanks to which we have the so called "beta" version of Half-Life 2 and many other files.

And yes, unlike what the majority of people think, Axel Gembe wasn't the one who released those files publicly. He only breached Valve's servers and gave the access to his friends, and one of them leaked the files into the Internet.

[Evan]

ANd history was forever made and changed!

[mine]

we need a complete time line of the beta from before its release to releasing

[pill_dickle]

It's amazing to see what the community has done to it in the past 15 years.