A group of college students, including Henry's dad, decided to experiment with creating artificial lifeforms. The group called themselves the Monster Makers and had code names: Tao (Mr. Wong), Dolphin, Shibumi, Curly, Daisy, and Babel. They succeded but all of their funding was gone and used up so they had to shut it down. A generation later, the lifeforms have evolved and made their way to the earth's linked electronics systems, where they created their own Digital World.