StocDred's days are numbered.

So are billions of other personal fictional creations. A 'net-wide plague is killing off hundreds of 'people' a day. It's a classic case of too-little-too-little as the World Wide Web thrusts the final nails in the coffin of online text games.

You kids today don't even know what the Internet is. You've never searched with a gopher. You've downloaded files without ever using a Get or Put command. All you have to do is turn on your miniature Cray and your browser takes you wherever your bookmarks lead.