In the mid-90s, a local dial-up ISP sent their support calls to me. I once put a local retiree couple online and went on my way. About 6 months later I came bac

In the mid-90s, a local dial-up ISP sent their support calls to me. I once put a local retiree couple online and went on my way. About 6 months later I came back to fix their connection which he promptly tested at a gambling site. I also did service calls at their friends and neighbors. They said that since getting online he'd gambled away their retirement, maxed out their credit cards, got new cards & maxed those, took out a 2nd mortgage and gambled that off. That they'd lose the house was a certainty. The wife may not have known yet just how bad off they were. I don't have a more depressing tech story.