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“My father performed a recreation on Teletext again within the day, and he gained a life-time provide of a few beer. Alternatively, they cheated him and best despatched him a celebration keg. My dad was once a programmer, so he wrote a program that performed playing cards for him on Teletext. If this system was once about to lose on account of dangerous playing cards, it give up the channel and logged in once more routinely for the following run. This system was once enjoying day and evening, and after some weeks, he had gained a number of TV units, video cameras, cruises, you title it.”
“Sooner or later, the organizer of the sport locked my father out, which was once unlawful. So he sued the corporate that arranged the sport and reached an settlement: they paid him an quantity of about $10k, and he by no means performed once more. So, as a substitute of a life-time provide of beer, he were given a large number of stuff. And this is the reason I, as a youngster, had my very own video digicam (which, at the moment, was once so dear that individuals needed to hire them).”
—u/NetAtraX