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formerlymtnbkr531 t1_ixm19d2 wrote

Reply to comment by dr_nerdface in Richmond's new area code is 686 by ThatChildNextDoor

No he’s right. 703 was the very first area code for VA so it really doesn’t s the original area code for RVA. It has just shrunk in footprint over time to just NOVA and did so before cell phones. Thus you don’t see any evidence of it outside of NOVA

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topo_gigio t1_ixmal52 wrote

Our area code in Fredericksburg changed from 703 to 540 when I was a kid, right after I'd memorized my phone number. That would have been in the early 90s.

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VaMoInNj t1_ixogmgn wrote

It interesting that when they added a code in VA that they went with 804. The original numbering plan had area codes with ‘0’ as the middle digit to be assigned to an entire state, and codes with ‘1’ in the middle to be for a portion of a state.

Until I just looked it up, I had always thought it was the opposite because of VA having 804 and 703 when I was growing up.

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