

The website was launched as Mod Database on 8 June 2002. He began Mod DB's development on 11 January 2002, following IMDb's structure in the process. Reismanis was motivated to start a new website by the difficulty of searching for mods on the then-dominant search engine, AltaVista, much less mods released to the public. The website became defunct on 17 December 2001, when its network was shut down after its hosting service, Playnet, filed for bankruptcy.

Launched in 1998, ModRealm was initially dedicated to Counter-Strike cheat codes before becoming a modding website. The network comprised over twenty websites, one of which was Mod DB's predecessor, ModRealm. Afterwards, he purchased the domain and formed the Realm Network.

While the 1918 H1N1 virus has been synthesized and evaluated, the properties that made it so devastating are not well understood. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin.

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history.
