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The programming term AJAX will begin its first Anniversay on Feb 18th 2006, the day the "programming" term was first coined.



Although, the techology had been around much longer in Outlook Web (XMLHttp) and, traces it roots to TAXI by Tim Bray in May 2001 , Google Maps, Google Suggests etc., creating a unified Marketing Buzzword was what has brought the Technology Concept into the public's consciousness.

Defining AJAX

AJAX isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. AJAX incorporates:



standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;

dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttp Request; and JavaScript binding everything together.

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As of today there were 1/2 Million pages on Google and consistant popularity on Google News and on Google Blog Search



Even on the Microsoft site, which intially resisted the term, returns results as AJAX or ATLAS AJAX on developer pages of their site



As of Today Amazon Returns 21 definite programming books with query AJAX and Web - and many more potentials with just the term AJAX:



Even DynamicDrive has an AJAX Scripts Category - as well as -DMOZ Open Directory

and the Yahoo Directory



On the Software site Downloads (dot) Com is displaying TEN AJAX downloads using that term as their descripitions.