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I also feel like asp was also super popular before php came around.

yes, until .net was released, then it was droped overnight by the developers (well, within a couple of years). I used it, while in school (around 2001) and remember doing anything with databases was a real pain. PHP felt like a step up.

When coming from ASP PHP was just amazing.

Not that it doesn't suck, it just sucks so much less than ASP :p

And there are still ASP developers around, I just recently worked with a company that still writes all their stuff (websites for paying customers!) in ASP

"And there are still ASP developers around, I just recently worked with a company that still writes all their stuff (websites for paying customers!) in ASP"

The company I work for has about 4000 customers on an application using ASP / SQL Server 2000. If it works and it does what people want, they really don't care or know even what language it is in.

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