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You drop out of college to Become a web tycoon.

Begin with your life's savings ($27.64). Using a six-sided die, proceed along the path to success, acquiring undeserved wealth and overvalued Internet companies, while being tossed about by good and bad luck. (Each minute of playing time equals one (1) minute of real time.)

Start here!
 
You compile definitive index of index of index of index of index of indexes.

Move ahead 3.

Your public key is an obscenity in Hebrew.

Go back 2.

You tile seamlessly.

Move ahead 1.

You forget to close off <BLINK> tag, causing entire epilepsy support page to pulse.

Go back 5.

You gain reputation as the "bad boy" of server logfile analysis software.

Move ahead 1.

 
Like Prince, you change your name to a Zapf Dingbat.

Go back 1.

You acquire Askew Computing, Inc.
People pay you to not exercise your right to free speech.

Move ahead 3.

 
Your urinal terminals use novel pointing mechanism.

Move ahead 1.

You spam Senator Exon with ads for your "I Love Ewe" website.

Go back to start.

You write web browser for gas pump LED displays.

Move ahead 3.

You acquire StopWatch Global Networking, Inc.
You forget to start investor-funded web design shop, saving investors millions.

Move ahead 4.

 
You buy Netscape during IPO.

Move ahead 1.

You sell Netscape during IPO.

Move ahead 1.

Your Russian-made mainframe runs out of gas.

Go back 4.

You acquire Bell Pepper Global Networking.
 
Celebrity colonoscope-cam web site gets a million hits.

Move ahead 2.

Your Java animation applet perfect for running pacemakers.

Move ahead 1.

 
You hire Unix system administrator who is socially well-adjusted.

Go back 4.

PC Week says your product is "hotter than Monica Lewinsky in the Disney World Hall of Presidents."

Move ahead 2.

You invent a laptop (shown at actual size) which has unusable keyboard.

Go back to start.

 
Your MIS facility for George Steinbrenner allows him to change managers 1000 times per second.

Move ahead 3.

You acquire Cauliflower Global Networking.
You join VBOpenScriptObjects+++ alliance.

Move ahead 1.

 
Ugly people avoid your videophone network; no customers in Northeast.

Go back 5.

You acquire Big Condom Global Networking.
You invent set-top mainframe, which crushes customers' televisions.

Go back to start.

You invest in "slackware".

Move ahead 2.

Bill Gates makes fun of the size of your installed base.

Go back 5.

 
Your stock gets "strong buy" rating from Addams family's Thing.

Move ahead 2.

Over a couple of joints, you help Al Gore grok the net.

Move ahead 1.

Paparazzi catch you with Vegas laptop dancer.

Go back 4.

You get cordless phones to breed in captivity.

Move ahead 1.

 
Your HateChat technology brings enemies together like never before.

Move ahead 3.

Your technology evangelist's head explodes.

Go back 2.

You give keynote at InfoTainMercialVision360 2000 conference.

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You realize that every good idea has already been thought of.

Move ahead 1.

You realize there are still plenty of totally original bad ideas to get investors interested in.

Move ahead 1.

 
You've done it! You're a Web Tycoon
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