I believe he played when the game was new, so yeah. Allegedly he played it so much that on official servers he would say that he found out how to do that shop dupe glitch by messing around with the npcs, blind of the glitch existing at all beforehand.
Then he said he got really fast and...
You would be right.
If I remember properly, there would be some small time that I would play when I was in middle school with my dad who introduced me to the game, and I believe that at about 16 I started to play a little more seriously.
I think that the simple nature of the game at its core is why it's so popular among people like us, and it's charming that we still find ways to make it fun for the casual and for the seasoned.
All the more reason to be happy you're around. ^w^