I learned how to program by writing auto buyers, bots that would buy specific items that had a higher value on the secondary market, for Neopets. I believe the farther I went was deobfuscating the API they used issuing points for their games and making fake game players. I was part of a bunch of Neopets automation forums where people would bot and then RMT (real money trading) gold and other items. Neopets basically had 0 security and would really only ban people when their checkout speed sub 1 second. Everything I wrote was in VB6 and then eventually VB .Net basically killed the scene I was in since the initial .net roll out was so poor, as well as people growing up. Hadn't thought about this in forever. Thanks Neopets!