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“My father performed a sport on Teletext again within the day, and he received a lifetime provide of some beer. Nonetheless, they cheated him and solely despatched him a celebration keg. My dad was a programmer, so he wrote a program that performed playing cards for him on Teletext. If this system was about to lose due to dangerous playing cards, it give up the channel and logged in once more routinely for the subsequent run. This system was enjoying day and night time, and after some weeks, he had received a number of TV units, video cameras, cruises, you identify it.”
“Finally, the organizer of the sport locked my father out, which was unlawful. So he sued the corporate that organized the sport and reached an settlement: they paid him an quantity of about $10k, and he by no means performed once more. So, as an alternative of a lifetime provide of beer, he received numerous stuff. And because of this I, as a youngster, had my very own video digital camera (which, presently, was so costly that folks needed to lease them).”—u/NetAtraX