I remember it being around 2001 - 2002 and seeing the first implementations of Microsoft for Javascript requests and at the same time the DOM was started to be a thing you could actually manipulate and I started experimenting on doing programmatic page updates for a system I was developing for the office I was working for (I worked for a state office back then).
Then the big crisis of 2002 hit (I live in Argentina), I lost 2 of the 3 jobs I had at the time (And the one that I kept was the one bringing in the less amount of money) and I ended up moving to Spain for a few years.
When I finally managed to land a job coding (2007) AJAX already had its own name and dynamic pages were taking the world by storm (And to hell, via callbacks).
P.S.: That "I invented AJAX" was obviously tongue in cheek. I'm pretty certain that there was a lot of people doing the same thing all around the globe, and very likely that was the idea that got that implemented on the MS side of things in the first place.
I remember using iframes to load data in the background using javascript. Certain actions would have a flag passed via url parameter which would render the content, but none of the page elements (heading, sidebar, footer), and the content was then copied into a div on the visible webpage.
AJAX and DHTML were different things. DHTML was just scripting for DOM, it didn't include making requests back to the server without reloading the page.
I invented a lot of things for myself... AJAX was one of them but also I used a lot of animated GIFs for transitions
I made dailytutor.com back in 2003 or so!
The domain name expired so I saved the site at http://thetutorbase.com
Sadly the hostgator or whatever hosting it made php errors now for sessions
But some of it still works
Check it out :)
Heh. I know Jesse who "invented" the acronym AJAX at Adaptive Path back in 2005 or so... (The technique was fairly well known by then, at least amongst cutting edge webdev people - he only ever claimed to be the one who came up with a name for it that happened to stick...)
I was also doing a similar thing at the same time. It was an account management tool that would load child nodes of the hierarchy as you expanded them. It was pretty slick and even, though some hackery, supported rearranging things via drag-and-drop.
I remember it being around 2001 - 2002 and seeing the first implementations of Microsoft for Javascript requests and at the same time the DOM was started to be a thing you could actually manipulate and I started experimenting on doing programmatic page updates for a system I was developing for the office I was working for (I worked for a state office back then).
Then the big crisis of 2002 hit (I live in Argentina), I lost 2 of the 3 jobs I had at the time (And the one that I kept was the one bringing in the less amount of money) and I ended up moving to Spain for a few years.
When I finally managed to land a job coding (2007) AJAX already had its own name and dynamic pages were taking the world by storm (And to hell, via callbacks).
P.S.: That "I invented AJAX" was obviously tongue in cheek. I'm pretty certain that there was a lot of people doing the same thing all around the globe, and very likely that was the idea that got that implemented on the MS side of things in the first place.