MetroNet began in 1994 with as little as 3 bulletin boards in South-West Pennsylvania and quickly expanded to well over 63 boards through-out Pennsylvania and a few western states. Slowly but surely the InterNet reared it’s ugly head into town and the users were no longer interested in “lowly bbs’s” but all the “pretty pictures” of the InterNet. The BBS’s tried to put up a fight, but couldn’t stand up to it. BBS’s began shutting down, along with that, dropping out of our network and taking their users (what was left) with them.