Is AJAX new ?

I din't think so... The principle at least is very similar to what we did in the past with Javascript and XML...

For instance I think about Mozquito; They have been doing it for more than 5 years now. (http://www.mozquito.com)

Today, I find the same remark on this site:

http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX-Tutorial.html

"I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have been using similar things long before it became "AJAX". And it really isn't as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be. Here is a simple example from one of my apps. "