ASP is a technology that allows you to dynamically generate browser-neutral content using server-side scripting. The code for this scripting can be written in any of several languages and is embedded in special tags inside the otherwise-normal HTML code making up a page of content. This heterogeneous scripting/content page is interpreted by the web server only upon the client's request for the content.
To understand the evolution of ASP and its current capabilities, it helps to quickly review the history of web-based content and applications.
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