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Heh, I'm bored. Note: Shameless copypasta from Wikipedia ahead.
Versions Date Version Remarks New features January 16, 2002 1.0 First version
released together with Visual Studio .NET
* Object oriented web application development supporting Inheritance, Polymorphism and other standard OOP features o Developers are no longer forced to use Server.CreateObject(...), so early-binding and type safety are possible. * Based on Windows programming; the developer can make use of DLL class libraries and other features of the web server to build more robust applications that do more than simply rendering HTML ( i.e. exception handling )
April 24, 2003 1.1 released together with Windows Server 2003
released together with Visual Studio .NET 2003 * Mobile controls * Automatic input validation
November 7, 2005 2.0
codename Whidbey released together with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server 2005 * New data controls (GridView, FormView, DetailsView) * New technique for declarative data access (SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, XmlDataSource controls) * Navigation controls * Master pages * Login controls * Themes * Skins * Web parts * Personalization services * Full pre-compilation * New localization technique * Support for 64-bit processors * Provider class model
November 6, 2006 3.0
previously known as WinFX released as an add-on to Visual Studio 2005 * Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) * Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) * Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) * Windows CardSpace
November 19, 2007 3.5
released together with Visual Studio 2008
* New data controls (ListView, DataPager) * Integrated AJAX support * Designtime support for nested master pages in Visual Studio 2008 * Support for LINQ
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