Nova.Org's Mission

We are the old school internet. We are open-source aficionados and DIY geeks who build and host things on the Internet. We are firm believers that anyone can use the Internet and we want to retain the charm and quirkiness of the original Internet that wasn't owned by giant corporations. We're just a bunch of private citizens who do a bunch of colocated hosting for whatever projects we're working on.

Our History

The Northern Virginia Internet Access Cooperative (NVIAC) was originally founded in 1995 as part of Fairfax Public Access television. The mission at that time was to provide affordable Internet connectivity to organizations and individuals, through a cooperative model. In the same way that public-access TV and radio were made, NVIAC was made to provide public access to the Internet. Over the years we provided dial-up internet through a modem bank, then email, shell, FTP, and web services. A lot has changed in that time.