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by bikitan 3092 days ago
> My class had a couple of kids who already knew how to program and were making good money doing programming competitions on topcoder

> High school (1996 - 2000)

This does't seem right. What sorts of competitive programming sites were around that early?
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jldugger 3091 days ago 

    whois topcoder.com | grep Creation
    Creation Date: 1998-12-30T05:00:00Z`
archive.org sample: http://web.archive.org/web/20010401182116/http://www.topcode...

So plausible, but extremely early adopter. More likely would be craigslist, IMO.

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