30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web

Thirty years ago, Netscape engineer Brendan Eich famously created a new client-side scripting language in just ten days. It was initially called Mocha, but by the end of the year it would be renamed JavaScript. In 1995, nobody could’ve predicted that JavaScript would become the world’s most popular programming language. But that’s exactly what happened.

How did JavaScript become the defining technology of the modern web? In this article, we’ll look at ten milestone moments in JavaScript’s 30-year history. It’s remarkable how much…