The "beauty" of ASP was (is?) that it could be so many wonderful things. For me it was inheriting a codebase that was basically many HTML pages with VBScript AND JScript dynamic parts, in the same file.

Imagine what everyone was saying about spaghetti PHP intermixed with HTML - but with 2 backend languages plus HTML and CSS, at least that was early enough that clientside JS was limited to changing images on hover...