History
- In the beginning, there was Asbot
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- for the first version of 6.002x.
- When we made a site for multiple courses, we discovered that Asbot didn't support multiple courses with different discussion forums well.
- Amondo Fox from Berkeley decided to write something.
- So originally written by a team (grad student and undergrads) at Berkeley.
- They set up the original architecture, which we still have.
Comments Service (basically a data store from the LMS perspective)
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