Re: history of online comments

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Michael Erard <michael.erard@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. What was the first website to offer the ability for readers/users to
> leave comments? (A Wikipedia entry on "blogs" says that Bruce Ableson at
> OpenDiary.com was the first but I've been unable to confirm this as yet.)

The first one I can think of is WIT from 1994:

  W3 Interactive Talk

  WIT is a forms-based discussion system which we invented immediately
following WWW94 in order to allow discussions on W3 technical matters
to be stored in a more structured fashion. ...

  -- http://www.w3.org/WIT/User/Overview.html

-- 
Dan Connolly
http://www.madmode.com/

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