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The time traveller's guide to JavaScript

on YouTube 34m
Talkat JSHeroes 2026 · 2026-05-14..05-15· [javascript]

speaker

name:Phil Hawksworth
website:https://philhawksworth.dev

resources

video:https://youtu.be/8W0sXKIMKWc
slides:none on file

summary

JavaScript turns 30 and the timeline names specifics: created in 10 days by Brendan Eich, Netscape ships the DOM, Internet Explorer adds XMLHttpRequest, and the first JSON message April 2001 arrives — Gmail’s Ajax-powered beta follows and actually works. Tooling proliferates: JSLint, jQuery, Node.js, npm, React, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Deno. Surprising incidents punctuate the story, for example left-pad removal breaks millions, and standards (Temporal, ES6) take years to land.

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chapters (15)

  1. 0:00JavaScript history overview
  2. 3:29JavaScript origins
  3. 5:57Browser wars pitfalls
  4. 8:47Ajax revolution
  5. 10:53jQuery impact
  6. 12:59iPhone's JavaScript role
  7. 15:44Flash vs HTML5 debate
  8. 17:47Node.js expansion
  9. 19:54Atwood's Law
  10. 21:40Tooling explosion
  11. 24:27ECMAScript 6 features
  12. 25:29VS Code evolution
  13. 27:16Temporal API standards
  14. 28:43Deno's space journey
  15. 30:49JavaScript future

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