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I was already using the beta of Microsoft Active Server Pages when this presentation was given. ASP 1.0 was released in December 1996 and changed my web development career.

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Buried in this video[1] are a couple demo sites built on Internet Database Connector (IDC/IDX). IDC launched with IIS 1.0 in NT 3.51 SP3, late '95 or early '96. Microsoft was iterating incredibly fast -- the famous "Internet Memo" was mid-1995.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC-1996/PDC-1996-Keyno...

Thanks for this link! I was trying to remember the predecessor to ASP while watching the Jobs video. I hoped that one of the others might have contained an ASP demo, but never realized they would be still demoing IDC. I recall the pace of change being incredibly fast, as you said.

I was experimenting with IDC for a client project at the time but quickly switched to ASP as soon as the beta became available.

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