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)