Comment by shw1n

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