I was programming in VB6 (and hanging out in the vb6 private chat on AOL) in these days. I made a custom mp3 player with chat coms & feedback called 3pm, an AIM account storage utility (AIMs were like our NFTs I guess) called whorehouse (I was 16).
I had a couple of "naughty" projects at the time, that netted me some cash as well. Stated generically, automated affiliate marketing using AOL. I made about $6,000 my junior and senior years of high school, and a couple of friends did as well using my program. It was fully hands-off besides having to restart it sometimes, although the code felt like a house of cards, even to me then as a total novice programmer.
I had a couple of "naughty" projects at the time, that netted me some cash as well. Stated generically, automated affiliate marketing using AOL. I made about $6,000 my junior and senior years of high school, and a couple of friends did as well using my program. It was fully hands-off besides having to restart it sometimes, although the code felt like a house of cards, even to me then as a total novice programmer.