Beginning ASP.Net 2.0
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 computers. Previously
relegated to the realm of the bedroom and dedicated hobbyists 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 woodland, hundreds of web sites on
every imaginable subject were born.
The late '90s were a time of vast upheaval. Business empires were founded on the simplest
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