Today, G. Ripley covers Javascript; Netscape; and Brendan Eich. Javascript is a programming language, that is commonly abbreviated as JS. Javascript was created in 10 days, by Brendan Eich during his working life at Netscape in 1995. Javascript was supposed to complement Java, yet it became a language that you could stick right into a web page. Javascript became a success, as more web developers wanted to use it to create powerful websites. Javascript is connected to all parts of a web browser, even though it had
many bugs and it was a rushed, get it out the door product. One of the main goals of Javascript was to implement this new language, into the Netscape Navigator web browser. At the time, Netscape and Microsoft had started the web browser wars. Next, let's look at Netscape and its origins. Netscape is widely known by its three major leaders/founders: 1. Jim Clark; 2. Marc Andreessen; and 3. James Barksdale. Barksdale served the company in the role of CEO, while Andreessen is the man that hired Brendan Eich. Jim Clark has a PhD, and he is a career entrepreneur. Jim Clark founded Silicon Graphics; Netscape; Healtheon; and myCFO. He is also the main subject [focus] in the book, 'The New New Thing' written by Michael Lewis in 1999. Third, Marc Andreessen helped Kipp Hickman to create SSL at Netscape Communications. SSL is secure sockets layer. It is a standard secure protocol for making encrypted links between a web server; and browser in online communication. Andreessen received his bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1993. These days, Andreessen is a huge part of Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm in modern day Menlo Park. Andreessen is very much known for founding other startup companies such as Opsware [later renamed to Loudcloud], and Ning. Fourth, Netscape Communications was sold in Fall 1998 to AOL for $4.2 billion. Yet, the Netscape navigator disappeared in 2002. Brendan Eich became the co-founder of the mozilla community. The mozilla community is part of the mozilla foundation, which started the firefox web browser. Firefox is an open source project, and one of the top web browsers in 2018. For the reader, the last paragraph will cover Javascript again. Finally, JavaScript is one of the major pieces that advertisers use for web tracking. Brendan Eich is the CEO of Brave software, which has a main product that is written in Javascript; C; and C++. Brave is that cool product. It is an open source web browser created by Brave software co.; based on the chromium web browser. The WWW is the world wide web, and enjoy the image above of Brendan Eich and the mozilla firefox logo. Hope the reader enjoyed another story replete with facts on Javascript; Netscape; Brendan Eich; and Marc Andreessen. Au revoir!!
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