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The original was posted on /r/MuseumOfReddit by /u/flashman on 2018-07-17 05:58:47+00:00.


We’ve all been told - even here in the Museum - that the first comment on Reddit was a complaint about comments. That record needs correcting.

The earliest known comment is currently this one:

/u/frjo

A look at Vietnam and Mexico exposes the myth of market liberalisation.

This was discussed on Theory of Reddit, and in fact, there are at least 32 comments that are older. For reference, these are the first 50 comments known, via the PushShift Reddit search API:

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frjo 05:26:28 2005/12/12 c13
zse7zse 05:35:25 2005/12/12 c14
[deleted] 05:54:08 2005/12/12 c15
[deleted] 06:07:40 2005/12/12 c16
rjoseph 06:09:14 2005/12/12 c17
[deleted] 06:17:11 2005/12/12 c18
cavedave 07:04:10 2005/12/12 c19
b0se 07:14:24 2005/12/12 c20
damir 08:14:33 2005/12/12 c21
richardk74 09:36:07 2005/12/12 c22
kn0thing 09:56:18 2005/12/12 c24
bugbear 10:41:59 2005/12/12 c26
[deleted] 11:00:25 2005/12/12 c27
[deleted] 11:15:31 2005/12/12 c29
[deleted] 11:16:22 2005/12/12 c30
[deleted] 11:16:33 2005/12/12 c31
[deleted] 11:17:34 2005/12/12 c32
AaronSw 11:19:48 2005/12/12 c33
AaronSw 11:21:38 2005/12/12 c35
fnord123 11:22:37 2005/12/12 c36
AaronSw 11:23:21 2005/12/12 c37
ssundar78 11:23:44 2005/12/12 c38
ssundar78 11:25:48 2005/12/12 c39
AaronSw 11:30:28 2005/12/12 c40
zlayde 11:34:30 2005/12/12 c41
jarsonic 11:39:00 2005/12/12 c42
[deleted] 12:03:35 2005/12/12 c44
zimba 12:04:28 2005/12/12 c45
zimba 12:08:20 2005/12/12 c46
[deleted] 12:15:20 2005/12/12 c47
hellfire 12:36:04 2005/12/12 c49
bugbear 12:42:38 2005/12/12 c50
charlieb 12:46:44 2005/12/12 c51
qwerty 12:58:12 2005/12/12 c52
spez 13:05:48 2005/12/12 c53
mrevelle 13:11:19 2005/12/12 c56
bugbear 13:21:27 2005/12/12 c58
bugbear 13:32:39 2005/12/12 c59
mckirkus 13:34:02 2005/12/12 c60
dylanm 13:35:51 2005/12/12 c61
theycallmemorty 13:46:20 2005/12/12 c62
vibz 13:49:41 2005/12/12 c63
dylanm 13:50:35 2005/12/12 c64
charlieb 13:51:49 2005/12/12 c66
swwoodruff 13:53:00 2005/12/12 c67
tcervl 13:56:04 2005/12/12 c68
[deleted] 13:56:53 2005/12/12 c69
[deleted] 13:57:16 2005/12/12 c70
senzei 13:58:25 2005/12/12 c71
theycallmemorty 14:00:14 2005/12/12 c72