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

Something that really sticks out to me after reading the article, is how Sun had all the hype in the world when Java was released. There were internet discussions about Java replacing Windows. That Java was going to be the future of program development. It was going to run everything. It was going to run everywhere.

And now, 30 years later, Javascript is the programming language that does what Java set out to do.

Some other, recent, JavaScript discussions

30 year anniversary since the announcement of JavaScript https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146406

It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145365