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Comment by bikitan | Hacker News Reader

> My class had a couple of kids who already knew how to program and were making good money doing programming competitions on topcoder

> High school (1996 - 2000)

This does't seem right. What sorts of competitive programming sites were around that early?

    whois topcoder.com | grep Creation
    Creation Date: 1998-12-30T05:00:00Z`

So plausible, but extremely early adopter. More likely would be craigslist, IMO.