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30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

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·December 4, 2025
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le-mark

It’s really hard to understand today the level of hype around Java and OOP in the 90s. The fact Netscape changed the name from Livescript to JavaScript may be an indicator. This was also peak Sun, they were really driving the web in this era.

andsoitis

JavaScript is an easy-to-use object scripting language designed for creating live online applications that link together objects and resources on both clients and servers. While Java is used by programmers to create new objects and applets, JavaScript is designed for use by HTML page authors and enterprise application developers to dynamically script the behavior of objects running on either the client or the server. JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications. JavaScript's design represents the next generation of software designed specifically for the Internet

dormento

"Capital I" internet. Love this aesthetic.

tosti

It still annoys me whenever the public internet known as the Internet is misspelled with a lower-case i.

DoctorOW

“This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

udev4096

"30 years ago today netscape and sun killed the web"