what was the first ever thread?

[codswallop]

anyone know?

And who started all the ds dd stuff?

[CAM]

Oh God in the early days it was just intellectual threads like the politics of breasfeeding or women's rights, etc, no chat areas or anything like that...

[zebra]

DS and DD came, I believe, from Usenet conventions -- the original Internet places to chat. Probably predate WWW, though I'm not sure about that. Try Dejanews and search for misc.kids, misc.kids.pregnancy, etc.

[codswallop]

no good