Sorry, I just did my own research and it started with this remark on 22/01/03.

PHP and CGI/Perl are arguably as easy to do the same things with... what is your point?

In a thread re: Browser switching in mIRC. The thread evolved into a debate on server-side scripting for web pages versus plain HTML pages. It wasn't a debate on what server-side function was better or equal. They probably all have their ups and downs, none of which I care to discuss. I raised ASP as an example because I have experience with it as my website is NT hosted.

To answer your query there, that was my point.