✅ – Yes, early web apps ran on Jet. It was the cheap, simple backend for small sites.
– Microsoft stopped including it with Office/Windows gradually, but its ghost lives on in every Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 connection string. microsoft jet database engine
#MicrosoftJet #RetroComputing #DatabaseHistory #AccessDatabase #WindowsLegacy ✅ – Yes, early web apps ran on Jet
✅ – Thousands of desktop apps used Jet as their embedded database (DAO – Data Access Objects). No SQL Server needed. ✅ – Yes
Because modern embedded databases (SQLite, LiteDB, DuckDB) stand on Jet’s shoulders. Jet proved a file-based relational engine could be on a Pentium with 16MB of RAM.
Before SQL Server Express, before LocalDB, even before .NET... there was .
What’s your Jet memory? Broken mdb file? Classic ASP e-commerce site? Or just cursing Access replication? 👇