Who and when invented the comments section on websites?

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losrogaty2019-07-20 00:53:24

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losrogaty, 2019-07-20 00:53:24

After all, someone was a pioneer and for the first time filed a commentary section under the article, changing the approach from offline vision, like a user reading a newspaper / article. I’m interested in the history, how, on what the first comment sections were created, were there other attempts to build feedback with the audience and everything related to building a community.
And relatively recently, a new trend has emerged: like on the cp, the live broadcast section on the right. Also an interesting solution. I wonder who and when came up with all this?

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Sergey Gornostaev, 2019-07-20
@losrogaty

Audience feedback and community building predated the Internet as you know it. Back in the 80s there were BBS'ki . On websites, the dialogue with the user began with the advent of guest books in the nineties. They gradually developed into forums. In the late nineties and early 2000s, blogging platforms and social networks began to appear, and with them the ability to comment. Who first did this history is unlikely to have preserved.

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Robur, 2019-07-20
@Robur

When the first fence was put up, the first posts and comments appeared.
Online it just migrated naturally and I think in many minds regardless.

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dollar, 2019-07-20
@dollar

Almost the first were forums . The first post could pull on a whole article, and the rest of the posts were, as it were, comments on the first one. Plus, the forum has the concept of a topic within which you need to enter a discussion, it's like the title of an article. Although on the forum this can be both a question and just a flood (formally, this is also a topic, just the framework is very wide).
And before the forums, there were guest books - that is. site comments.
Before that (before the Internet) there were marketing research, surveys (paper), questionnaires (also paper), but these are not really comments. Only the organizers see the results of the poll, and everyone sees each other's comments. Therefore, the comments that we are used to appeared only with the advent of the Internet (at least, media such as radio).