Area code 301-913 (Bethesda, Maryland).

It ran for RISC in february 1993 (3 nodes), as a memberboard for Pentagram between august and october 1993 (3 nodes), as a distsite for TRSI between september 1993 (2 nodes) and august 1994 (3 nodes), as a memberboard in november 1993 and then as WHQ for Pentagram in september 1994 (6 nodes) and for Genesis in february of 1995.

+1-301-913-59xx

"Up since 1988: Maryland's Finest"

In an interview Dr. Insanity states he started the board in late 1989.

This is when The Digital Underground first went up, in about late '89 ... before TDU I ran The Infinite Hierarchy (Macintosh). I was running Celerity back then, and was one of the original beta testers for Celerity ... Celerity was like the BEST BBS software at the time .. CelerityNET was made up of the TOP boards world-wide (small net of about 30 boards).
Anyways, I was in INC and ran Celerity for about 1-2 years. In the end of 1990 I switched to a BBS software called ELITE, written by a great p/h/a guy I knew in California ... only about 5 boards world-wide ran Elite BBS.

The board was shutdown in 1991 and restored late 1992 as a single node.

In middle of '91 I left the scene for personal reasons ... and when I came back in late 92. I put TDU back up again ... 1 node.

The board running from Dr. Insanity's location was shutdown permanently in mid-1995, "until last week when I took TDU down". However, when asked who will run TDU?

TDU is moving to a new location .. new sysop (dunno handle yet) ... it will be up probably next day or two.. with 7-8 nodes ringdown.

When asked about his time on the Scene.

Personal Satisfaction -- I really liked running a BBS (TDU) .. it's the main reason I got into the scene .. I've been running a BBS of one kind or another for like 7 years ... and running the main BBS for PTG and GNS, the #1 PC GROUP, is well ... pretty cool! TDU was awesome ... over 120mb per day .. very nicely organizer file dirs ... hundreds of calls per day from all parts of the world.

The board probably operated from Fanfan Latulipe's or Brainbox's location for the few months of mid-1995 until Fanfan closed the board and shutdown TDU-Jam! in December 1995.

The Digital Underground ceases to exist as such as of now.