JavaScript was created at the browser company Netscape by Brendan Eich, who wrote the first version in about ten days in 1995. It was first called Mocha, then LiveScript, and was renamed JavaScript when Netscape and Sun Microsystems announced it in December 1995, as a marketing link to the popular Java language, although the two languages are quite different. It allowed web pages to respond to users, check forms and change content without reloading. Microsoft produced its own version, and the language was standardised as ECMAScript by Ecma International in 1997. After Node.js made it possible to run it on servers in 2009, JavaScript became one of the most widely used programming languages in the world.
Before and after
- 21 November 1995Release of GIMP
- 22 November 1995Release of Toy Story
- December 1995The Hubble Deep Field
- 2 December 1995Launch of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
- 4 December 1995Creation of JavaScript
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- 1996Creation of Visual Basic Script
- 1996Founding of Union State
- 1996Creation of OCaml
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
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