Bill

I learned JavaScript in 97 by copying AOL's mouse over button code and reusing it for, well, everything.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

#javascript #eich

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Ars Technica
Dec 5 at 4:21amWeb
Show threadMr. BitternessDec 5
@Sempf
And yet Frontpage 98 implemented the hover effect for buttons using... JAVA
😂
Show threadBillDec 5
@wdormann I had forgotten all that. What ever happened to applets? Can you still even build them? That's how I learned JavaScript, writing applets.
Show threadMr. BitternessDec 5
@Sempf
Browsers in general dropped support for Java applets about 10 years ago.
Presumably for attack surface reduction reasons.
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/chrome.html
Show threadBillDec 5
@wdormann True, but there were other uses of applets. None of them good.