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Web Developers, write thousands of codes each project. On each web development projects lies a series of little codes called Javascript. April 1995, when Brendan Eich started working on Javascript for Netscape Navigator browsers. The web scripting language was first released under the name of LiveScript as part of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995. It was renamed JavaScript on December 4, 1995.

In “Making Web Pages Come Alive” Brendan Eich said the following about how JavaScript came about:

I came to Netscape in April 1995, after seven years at Silicon Graphics and three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering. Netscape was about a year old then and was looking for someone to work on a scripting language or some kind of language inside the browser that could be used to automate parts of a web page or make a web page more dynamic. Java had been around for five years at First Person and Sun, and had been retooled for the web in late 1994. Netscape was the first Java licensee, so the issue became: Can we do just Java, or do we need another language?

Eich attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his master’s degree in 1986. He then helped found mozilla.org in early 1998, serving as chief architect. When AOL shut down the Netscape browser unit in July 2003, Eich helped spin out the Mozilla Foundation.

In August 2005, after serving as Lead Technologist and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation, Brendan became CTO of the newly founded Mozilla Corporation. Brendan Eich was named Web Innovator of the Year by c/net’s Builder.com in April 1998.

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