Jesse James Garrett coins Ajax (short for Asynchronous Javascript and XML) to describe the use of Javascript to retrieve data from a server and display it on a page without a page refresh. Though the technique had already been in use for some time, Garrett officially codified the methodology.
I took the best posts from The History of the Web, over sixty of them, and compiled them into a single volume. So now you can read about the web's history wherever you go.