Introduction

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

ASP.NET was devised in the late 1990s at a time when many companies in various industry sectors were rapidly discovering the Internet. The primary goal of ASP.NET was to make it possible for developers to build applications quickly and effectively without having to deal with low-level details such as HTTP, HTML, and JavaScript intricacies. That was exactly what the community loudly demanded at that time. ASP.NET is what Microsoft delivered to address this request, exceeding expectations by a large extent.

Today, more than ten years later, ASP.NET is showing signs of age, and many started even questioning the real necessity of having a web framework ...

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