What Does Active Server Pages (ASP) Mean?
Active Server Pages (also known as ASP or classic ASP) is Microsoft’s first server-side script engine that enabled dynamically-generated web pages. While the initial release was an add-on to the Internet Information Services (IIS) component of Windows NT 4.0, it was later incorporated into the Windows Server operating system.
Techopedia Explains Active Server Pages (ASP)
ASP was Microsoft’ alternative to Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts and Java Server Pages (JSPs), both intended to allow clients to interact with server-side databases and enterprise services. ASP has gone through three major releases: ASP 1.0 in 1996 (included with IIS 3.0), ASP 2.0 in 1997 (IIS 4.0) and ASP 3.0 in 2000 (IIS 5.0). ASP 3.0 becomes part of IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 and part of IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008.
