Colgate - Palmolive in 1947 of couse!Oh - coding? Jesse James coined the phrase early 2005 - but the tech was already in place much earlier than that. See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_ 28programming 29
Coined A Name For and Invented are two different things. I think it's safe to say Any individual who claims to have invented AJAX (the tech) is a fraud. Just like the sphere existed before it got the name so is AJAX.
yeah we had xmlhttp in production in early 2001... but one could argue that combinations of java/javascript could be used to do all kinds of server fed no refresh roundtrips even back in the mid 90s. etc etc. The concept of client side script+objects in a loaded webpage communicating with the server it's not really something that bears much credit for being novel really. 70s/80s BBS's had as much. the widespread adoption ie many of us using it as part of the standard feature base of web sites/applications that's the greater trend that making it the swell thing it is.
