Former Area Boards

This page stands as a memorial for the proud Bulletin Board Systems that once operated here in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. At current count there have been 115 systems that have existed in this area in addition to those still operating and listed on the main page.

A long time ago Net275 broke apart from Net271 due to internal conflicts and long distance calling charges between the Peninsula and Southside areas of Hampton Roads. In 1996, Bell Atlantic split up area code 804 that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of Virginia due to the shortage of available phone numbers. Everything from the Atlantic Ocean to Williamsburg then became area code 757. This change also united the Peninsula and Southside into one large local calling area. Also about this time the increasing popularity of the Internet began taking its toll on the boards in both nets as the user population decreased and systems began to shutdown. After becoming NC of Net275, I sought to reunite the two nets and bring home our lost regional independents. Net271 then merged into Net275 after there were no longer enough systems to warrant two networks.

In memory of all those boards that were members of either net, I am listing their names below. I hope life treats them well and they will be remembered and missed by all who used them as users and operated along side them as sysops.