[2] In 1996 Bolt.com was founded as a teen community by Dan Pelson and Jane Mount as part of Concrete Media.

[3] It offered content that included daily horoscopes, chat rooms, message boards, tagbooks (a knowledge market feature), photo albums, internet radio, browser games, blogs, e-cards, an instant messenger service, a clubs feature (giving people with similar interests a common message board), and badges (a system of awards for user profiles).

Bolt was originally marketed towards teenagers to create content, meet people, and play games in a safe and age-appropriate environment.

The goal of Boltfolio was to provide a set of tools that would attract users of creative sites such as DeviantArt, YouTube, and Flickr.

In December 2005 Bolt Media finalized a deal to purchase InterMedia Inc., a small company focused on a video-sharing site, Yashi.

Yashi and Boltfolio were integrated into one site, and in March 2006 Bolt Media opted to focus the company on this new property.

On October 17, 2006, one week after announcing a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube, Universal Music filed suit against Bolt Media and another video site, Grouper.

Universal contended that both sites allowed and encouraged their users to swap unlicensed music videos.

[4] In February 2007, Bolt Media announced that it would be selling itself to GoFish, another online video company, for $30 million.

The domain was registered to Fundbolt, LLC, a limited liability company based in Irvington, New York.

FOX later created and maintained their own message boards for the third season, but cross promotion still continued with AI sponsored quizzes, avatars, and badges.