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Discus is a WWW-based discussion board. It permits structured conversations over the web.
A bit of history behind Discus is appropriate. Discus started 3 years ago as “ChemBoard”, a discussion board for chemistry courses at Hope College.
One year after we made Discus freely available, it grew to about 300 implementations. In addition to educational institutions, Discus was adopted by various online communities and other groups wishing to implement a electronic discussion forums.
In 2 years the number of implementations grew from 300 to 3000, with many businesses adopting Discus as well. The total number of unique Discus implementations now stands at 24,000, which translates into a growth rate almost 10-fold each year.
Of the 2800 WWW scripts of all types listed at www.cgi-resources.com, a clearinghouse for WWW programs, Discus is the number one rated script with 9000 consumer votes, 99 out of 100 of which rated Discus with a perfect score of 10.
