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by mrits 1084 days ago
At age 10 I hopped on every BBS I could that wasn't long distance. Then I did a few free trials of AOL.

At age 12 I got unlimited internet for $20/month where I spent all my free time on mIRC. I learned to code making mIRC bots, then I found eggdrop bots.. Then I had to learn Linux to run them. Before I knew it I was a teenager with better coding knowledge than most of the professionals I knew.

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> I learned to code making mIRC bots

Hah, same. I went really far with mIRC scripting, much pain was had. Hard lessons that built a career i imagine.