Forbidden Playground
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Also listed as: Sybercom

"Inspired by other MajorBBS's, such as Shadowscape in Memphis and
Cupids in Norfolk, we decided to start a system of our own when we
bought a new house. I recall it became so popular, we had to add
lines every few months causing issues with the phone company
running out of copper pairs. We quickly became one of the largest
BBS's on the east coast. At its peak in 1996, it was not uncommon
to see over 100 users online at once. After that, due to the
increasing popularity of the internet, BBS usage declined and we
became more of an ISP. The whole system was ran out of one
bedroom, which eventually looked like a server room, containing 66
analog modems, many PC's, a couple Portmasters & a USR Terminal
Server. Much of our equipment was eventually moved to a Cox
co-location facility in Norfolk as we converted to all digital
lines. Its worth noting that Sybercom was one of the first ISP's
in the Hampton Roads area to offer 56kbps X2 access. When Sybercom
was sold to Picus at the end of 2000, we had about 4000 users with
almost 400 lines. But by that point, the BBS itself didn't have
much usage except as a billing system and occassional MajorMud
players. It lived on though until 2001 when I shut off the power
that final time." - Michael Plautz

Phone   : 757-420-7827
Place   : Virginia Beach, VA
Years   : 1995 - 2001
Sysop   : Michael Plautz, Steven Plautz
Software: MajorBBS, Worldgroup

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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