I was discussing a project with a potential client ( I think they were called Threeships ) who used ActiveX and a lot of investment to create full p2p software

I was discussing a project with a potential client ( I think they were called Threeships ) who used ActiveX and a lot of investment to create full p2p software and indeed serverless. Horrible tech that time but yes, that could be considered serverless; if there is a server (as in one physical or virtual machine handling multiple client software execution requests) it is not serverless. It is quite possible to let every client run their own request theoretically so you can make serverless but amazon is not.