A Brief History of JavaScript from the Deno team, celebrating JavaScript being 30 now. Interesting that the first web request tech was Internet Explorer 5 in 1999, then it took 5 years to get Gmail in 2004, then we started calling it AJAX in 2005, and by 2006, we got jQuery’s $.ajax which made it […]

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The Deno team published a brief history of JavaScript to celebrate the language turning 30. Key milestones highlighted include Internet Explorer 5 introducing the first web request technology in 1999, Gmail launching in 2004, the coining of the term AJAX in 2005, and jQuery's $.ajax making asynchronous requests far more accessible in 2006.

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