on Jan 23rd, 2007History of XMLHTTP aka Ajax
[digg=http://digg.com/programming/History_of_Ajax]This is for all you 2.0 and Ajax enthusiasts out there. Alex Hopman who created the XMLHttp object back in Microsoft details about its history, its conception, how it found use in outlook and also soem lessons learnt while developing it.
If you call yourself a 2.0 proponent, you just have to read this. Read the article here.
Good read. Thanks for posting.