4.
“My father played a game on Teletext back in the day, and he won a lifetime supply of some beer. However, they cheated him and only sent him a party keg. My dad was a programmer, so he wrote a program that played cards for him on Teletext. If the program was about to lose because of bad cards, it quit the channel and logged in again automatically for the next run. The program was playing day and night, and after some weeks, he had won several TV sets, video cameras, cruises, you name it.”
“Eventually, the organizer of the game locked my father out, which was illegal. So he sued the company that organized the game and reached an agreement: they paid him an amount of about $10k, and he never played again. So, instead of a lifetime supply of beer, he got a lot of stuff. And this is why I, as a teenager, had my own video camera (which, at this time, was so expensive that people had to lease them).”
—u/NetAtraX