Needing funding for his latest project, Abeni was down on his luck and all out of favors. He decided to utilize this new electronic mail technology to find help. He of course insisted he would pay any individual who responded to his call for their investment.

Before Kiki used the Bold HTML tag in her 8th grade home page/online dating diary, web type everywhere looked pretty much the same. That all changed when Kiki’s boyfriend, Kevin, dumped her for Christina, who was, way too dumb to deserve Kevin anyway. For many years hence, the Bold tag became the ultimate way to show passion and conviction online.

To make sure everyone knew where the ‘cool new stuff’ was on his website, Dave devised the radical idea of using an animated image of a burning flame. It was tremendously successful sparking future innovations like the ‘Look Here’ with pointing arrow gif.

In April of 2008, Mangus posted an online video of himself playing Eruption by Eddie Van Halen. It was a truly cringe-worthy performance, prompting many viewers to ask to have their "two minutes of my life back".