Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#
Chapter One
An Introduction to
ASP.NET 2.0 and the Wrox
United Application
At the end of the twentieth century something unprecedented happened to personal computers.
Previously relegated to the realm of the business office and teenagers who never saw the light of
day, the explosion of the Internet lead to computers acquiring a glamour, an aura of excitement
that had never been associated with them before. Prior to the 1990s, it was almost embarrassing to
admit you worked with computers, and then suddenly everyone wanted one. Every business had
to be attached to the Internet, and many families wanted their own web site. If you had to name
one piece of technology that became synonymous with the explosion, it was undoubtedly the web
browser. However, without anything to view on a web browser, it becomes virtually useless. You
need information, and like mushrooms sprouting up in a forest, hundreds of web sites on every
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