A Brief History of JavaScript

JS was developed as the HTML scripting language for Netscape’s Navigator 2 browser over ten days in May of 1995 by Brendan Eich, who was a Netscape employee at that time. At the O’Reilly Fluent Conference in San Francisco in April 2015, Eich said, “I did JavaScript in such a hurry, I never dreamed it would become the assembly language for the Web.”