I'm not wanting to actually revert back to that style, just think it might be interesting to see

You can download an older version of the game (up / down to 0.6)I bought the game via Steam, can I get the Factorio login for that as well?
Not at the moment. The only benefit coming from this at the moment would be getting a version of the game that can be started without Steam. However, for the 0.13 we would like to have this possibility. The idea would be that the web page account would be created directly from the game after running it via Steam (we need to do a bit of research about this). The possibility to create Factorio account for Steam users will be necessary because we are planning to introduce multiplayer matching server and mod portal which will use authentication with factorio accounts.