Im Jahr 1995 schrieb Brendan Eich, ein Mitarbeiter von Netscape, innerhalb von 10 Tagen einen Hack, der heute das Internet betreibt Dreißig Jahre später ist JavaScript der Leim, der das interaktive Web mit all seinen Fehlern zusammenhält.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/
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And Brendan Eich is a COVID conspiracy theorist.
Good ol Nutscrape Navigator. The Firefox of its era. God I miss those times.
I usually have JS disabled through uBlock Origin, and it really is sad how many websites rely entirely on JS just to even display themselves. But I disable it because webpages often load several times faster without needing to run all that poorly written code. Our computers have gotten beefier but the bloat has gotten so much worse.
My dad was a developer on Netscape and has some crazy stories from those times
is this why we have 27 flavors of null
As an old IT guy, I’m not sure I’d want „invented JavaScript“ on my resume.
It’s not very good.
I remember the ground breaking innovation of that period, that made users lives better. I remember the auto-fill that showed up one day:
– **www.go**|ogle.com.
– **www.go**|ofundme.com.
– **www.go**|v.uk.
It’s so simple, but it made ***such*** an improvement.
Now, major upgrades mean „new icon pack“
I remember JavaScript was kinda seen as a joke. No one serious about building web sites ever used it, because it was impossible to keep compatible with all the different implementations of Javascript on the different browsers. Especially Internet Exploder.