Back when I was in high school CD-ROMs were brand new and you could buy encyclopedias on disc.
I made dozens of dollars selling book reports and history papers to my fellow honors class peers. Every paper was a virtually unaltered copy & paste job from Microsoft Encarta. Copy, paste into word, format using some “fancy font”, add my “customers” name, date and class to the top… print! Boom. Somebody buys me lunch.
I mean how else was I gonna have time to write shitty Visual Basic programs that used every custom control I could download in order to play/pause the CDROM’s music stuff?
A microcosm of society. Helping others cheat for profit.
Nothing modern whatsoever about it. Students at Oxford nearly two thousand years ago sold their talents to other students.
Almost one not two millennia.
Lets see - 1096 to today is ... you're right. Obviously I didn't go to Oxford, not in maths anyway.
It was high school.