JavaScript Creation
Brendan Eich, in just 10 days, created JavaScript (then Mocha, then LiveScript) for Netscape Navigator, bringing client-side scripting to the web.
Significance
This was the absolute foundational step, enabling any client-side interactivity and making frontend frameworks eventually necessary and possible.
Key facts
- Date
- 1995-05-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Netscape Communications, Mountain View, California, USA