This is kind of embarrassing for me to admit...

See, ever since the advent of ajax in teh webs 2.0, I promised myself I would look into it some, and teach it to myself.

I did that today. And boy... WTF, IT'S A DESCRIPTION OF ASYNCHRONOUS LOADING IN JAVASCRIPT.

Much like a LAMP server is a description of a configuration (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP), AJAX is a buzzword for something that's actually been around a while. It's not a technology, new language, framework, or ... magic. It's javascript.

I feel robbed. I was all prepared to try and learn something. And then I find out it's all fluff, using nothing but a lesser-known javascript method.