ASP has come to have numerous meanings in the technology/computing/internet world. ASP is a term for application service provider, and is a new term meaning to provide a hosted application. An application might be to run a virus application from a website which in turn scours your local hard drive. The application is never installed on your machine. Another might be to provide accounting or billing or warehouse software from a remote location. Neotrope offers an e-commerce solution through its BlueSpin.com website that works in this way — you rent space as part of a larger application which we host. ".asp" can also refer to active server pages, an outgrowth of server side includes and tag-based HTML extensions created by Microsoft and used almost exclusively on Windows NT machines. A scripting language which allows you to design Web pages that can make displaying, manipulating and editing databases simpler.