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by shw1n 441 days ago
Neopets, created an account around 2nd grade.

Eventually learned HTML to spruce up my profile.

Then discovered running a “mall” to earn Neopoints and so I handcrafted a banner in MS Paint and manually mapped pixels for turning it into a link map

Then had my neopoints stolen by a fake website, tried to recreate fake website for myself, leading to… CTFs, hacking & cybersecurity

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Neopets was really cool. I remember a lot of cool techniques to get positioning right, css, tables, and 1x1 gifs :D