VBScript, short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition, is a lightweight scripting language developed by Microsoft and derived from Visual Basic. It was first released in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3 as an alternative to JavaScript for web pages, but its use in browsers stayed small because other browsers did not support it. It found a larger role in Windows, where Windows Script Host ran it for administrative scripts and Active Server Pages used it on web servers. It was also widely used for automation in Microsoft Office and was exploited in email viruses such as the ILOVEYOU worm. Microsoft later announced that it would be phased out of Windows.
Before and after
- 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
- 1996Creation of Active Server Pages
- 1996Creation of Windows Embedded Compact
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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