Remote Scripting (which is now referred to inaccurately as "AJAX" mostly because of a bunch of marketing hype) was invented by Microsoft around 1998, and was first notably used in a commercial application by the MS Exchange team in Outlook Web Access to make the Outlook Web application "look and feel" more like the desktop Outlook. The level of maturity of OWA was incredible, but it was only recently that browsers besides Internet Explorer got religion and implemented the XMLHttpWebRequest feature natively. That's why the big buzz over "AJAX", with many developers not even realizing that it has actually been around since last century!
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