History of JavaScript
- Brendan Eich developed at Netscape - it was called Mocha
- 1995 - Released as LiveScript
- 1995 - Renamed to JavaScript (to ride on the popularity of Java)
- 1996 - Microsoft JScript
- 1997 - First edition of ECMAScript standard (European Computer Manufacturers Association)
- 1998 - Second edition
- 1999 - Third edition
- 4th edition never completed
- 2009 - 5th edition
- 2011 - 5.1 edition (part of "HTML5")
- 2012 - TypeScript
- 2015 - 6th edition (ECMAScript6 or ECMAScript 2015)