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JavaScript was written in about ten days

Brendan Eich produced the first version at Netscape in 1995, and the name was a marketing decision Eich had roughly ten days to build a scripting language for Netscape's browser, and it shipped as LiveScript before being renamed to borrow the fashion for Java. A standardised version appeared as ECMA-262 in 1997 under the official name ECMAScript. Quirks such as automatic type coercion trace back to that rushed beginning. It sits in Mondo's technology collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Brendan Eich produced the first version at Netscape in 1995, and the name was a marketing decision. The figure is taken from Ecma International, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a technology fact?: Yes. It sits on the Technology shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.