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Miniclip was every bored student’s escape

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If you attended a school with a computer lab in the early 2000s, you absolutely spent your educational time playing poorly optimized dirt bike simulators here. It was the premier destination for avoiding actual work, successfully bypassing primitive school firewalls to deliver pure pixelated joy.

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