== Revisions to History == 

 Changed “Steve Spangler initiated the Internet Phenomenon” to note that the phenomenon was instead apparently the result of an April, 2006 NPR story and the June, 2006 Eepybird video. 

 The source providing the statement that the phenomenon was initiated by Steve Spangler appears to be dead and there does not appear to be any other third party source supporting it. More importantly, according to the Google timeline histogram of search traffic for the term “Diet Coke and Mentos”, there was little or no Internet activity around the phenomenon until April, 2006 when the NPR story aired, and then a large and sustained increase in searches for the term beginning in June of 2006 coincident with when Eepybird released its video.