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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where JavaScript comes up on Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, Top Founders, 20VC, Acquired
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:30 David Rosenthal And so he's playing around with JavaScript and what he can do with JavaScript to make this application, this web application of email better.
- ▶ 13:38 David Rosenthal The history of JavaScript is fascinating.
- ▶ 13:46 David Rosenthal The idea behind JavaScript was to include a programming language as part of web browsers so that people could make dynamic web pages instead of just static HTML documents.
- ▶ 13:57 David Rosenthal The problem was it was kind of this casualty of the browser wars with Microsoft and Internet Explorer and everything that killed Netscape, and so up until this time, kind of, 2001, JavaScript existed, but, like, it wasn't super popular.
- ▶ 14:57 David Rosenthal And so Paul's like, maybe I can use JavaScript to make this better.
- ▶ 14:59 David Rosenthal He's working on it, and he discovers a little known feature of JavaScript called the XML HTTP request, which lets a web page fetch
- ▶ 21:38 David Rosenthal There wasn't a lot of depth of knowledge out there about JavaScript.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:43 Ben Gilbert Think JavaScript, CSS, eventually, you know, Java and Flash.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14 Ben Gilbert He holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there, and Brendan was the chief architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.
- ▶ 5:31 Ben Gilbert Grew up using Firefox and the Mozilla browser before that, and Netscape before that, and God knows I use plenty of JavaScript every day in all facets of my life, so my life would not be what it is without your work over the years.
- ▶ 5:49 Brendan Eich Your JavaScript use keeps me in t-shirts.
- ▶ 9:12 Ben Gilbert But that is enabled because of the ecosystem that was built around JavaScript.
- ▶ 9:17 Ben Gilbert On the other side of things, the entire advertising and ad tracking and digital advertising ecosystem also is built on JavaScript, and so I think there's an unbelievable arc to everything that you've built over the years in deciding to…
- ▶ 11:40 Brendan Eich But JavaScript was the only bite at the Apple for that kind of runtime.
- ▶ 12:40 Ben Gilbert Even before Netscape, before JavaScript, you joined Silicon Graphics.
- ▶ 18:19 Brendan Eich I rescued watermark to take over JavaScript in late 97, and I went off to found mozilla.org after I'd standardized JavaScript.
- ▶ 19:59 Brendan Eich Definitionally and spiritually, and as the community manager, and I did the tech side, and we had a bunch of IT people and a couple of tools people who helped us build things that are now taken for granted or now standard on GitHub, and we…
- ▶ 38:42 Brendan Eich And it wasn't really at first clearly about fast JavaScript or all the stuff that people think of.
- ▶ 56:48 Brendan Eich JavaScript is used on these publisher pages, and I designed JavaScript on purpose.
- ▶ 57:08 Brendan Eich So JavaScript's mutability was a huge boon.
- ▶ 1:41:55 Brendan Eich That was a historic blog post, but some of them are still relevant to do with trust but verify, also WebAssembly, JavaScript stuff.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:41 Christina Cacioppo Um, and so they, they started something called SockTo, uh, which sort of like Java, JavaScript, like,