{"id":8867,"date":"2026-03-04T11:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:31:19","slug":"a-brief-history-of-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/a-brief-history-of-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deno.com\/blog\/history-of-javascript\">A Brief History of JavaScript<\/a> 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&#8217;s <code>$.ajax<\/code> which made it hugely more usable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of old Gmail, <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.net\/l\/quote\/celktvfp\">this is a crazy fact<\/a> about its launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s $.ajax which made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[458,3],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-ajax","tag-javascript"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30th-bday.webp?fit=2181%2C2064&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}