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> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.
The Netscape Server had JS in 1998.
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/816-6411-10/contents.ht...
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web ASSEMBLY is not much better name.
Haha indeed, it could be worse though: JavaAssembly ;)
> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.
It wasn't. They basically predicted Node.js 15 years before its inception. EDIT: Okay, server-side JS indeed long predates Node.js. See below.
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/816-5653-10/816-5653-10...
Nothing technically wrong with Java and JS of course, but this terrible PR piece which desperately tries to pitch Java as an integral part of the web, going even as far as naming an innocent scripting language for web browsers JAVA script truly demonstrates that the mid-to-end-90's were the dark age of computing (at least the corporate side).
web ASSEMBLY is not much better name.
> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something...
> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.
Think it was this (I am sure someone here will know better): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) Albeit it was two years after the announcement.
Nothing technically wrong with Java and JS of course, but this terrible PR piece which desperately tries to pitch Java as an integral part of the web, going even as far as naming an innocent scripting language for web browsers JAVA script truly demonstrates that the mid-to-end-90's were the dark age of computing (at least the corporate side).
> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.