Celebrating 25 Years of JavaScript

2 · Heroku · Dec. 4, 2020, 4:02 p.m.
JavaScript turns 25 years old today. While it’s made an impact on my career as a developer, it has also impacted many developers like me and users around the world. To commemorate the our favorite language, we’ve collected 25 landmark events that have shaped the path of what the JavaScript ecosystem looks like today. 1995 1) JavaScript is created In 1995, Brendan Eich, a developer at Netscape, known for their Netscape browser, was tasked with building a client-side scripting language that p...