ASP (Active Server Pages) is simply a server-side programming language, along with the likes of PHP, JSP, Coldfusion and so forth.

It's a very powerful tool for building dynamic websites, usually with the help of a database, that serves the user content based on a query or request.

This forum is a perfect example of server-side programming. This page does not exist as a physical file - the URL address provides the server with information, and the server-side language puts together HTML to send to the browser.

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