What is ASP?
Active Server Pages(ASP) is a program developed by microsoft that enables dynamically created web pages that enable server sided scripting. ASP works within HTML documents, calling the COM to perform tasks for the user. ASP uses many scripting languages, such as VB and Java. In the 2-tier a world of client/server applications, ASP is used to separate the server-sided scripts from the client-sided information. A casual viewer of the web page can only view the html code, not the ASP scripts that are running server-sided.
Here are some examples: