[2] Drawn as a stick figure, the comic character NetBoy is an Internet innocent with his greatest joy in life being "fast .GIFs.

Bored throughout high school, he skipped college and in 1988 started an electronic graphics business with his father.

The company the two created folded up within a year, however, and the NetBoy concept was slowly forming while Huyler worked as a pizza deliverer and programmed digital keyboards for musicians.

[2] Huyler started uploading NetBoy on the World Wide Web when he was 23 years old and worked as a creative director for Chicago-based internet provider InterAccess.

"[4] NetBoy was featured in The Milwaukee Journal as the "leading cartoon denizen of the Internet" in January 1995.