Active Server Pages, usually called classic ASP, was Microsoft's first server-side scripting environment for generating web pages dynamically. It arrived with Internet Information Services 3.0 and let developers embed code, most often VBScript or JScript, directly in HTML files that the web server executed before sending the result to the browser. Combined with COM components and database access through ADO, it made it fairly easy to build data-driven sites on Windows servers. It was later superseded by ASP.NET, which came with the .NET Framework in the early 2000s and replaced interpreted scripts with compiled, object-oriented code, although classic ASP stayed in use on many older sites for years afterward.
Before and after
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- 1996Creation of Visual Basic Script
- 1996Founding of Union State
- 1996Creation of OCaml
- 1996Creation of Active Server Pages
- 1996Creation of Windows Embedded Compact
- 1996Origins of Super Rugby
- 8 January 1996Death of François Mitterrand
- 30 January 1996Discovery of Comet Hyakutake
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
The era
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