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A Brief History of JavaScript

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I can only hope Stephen Hawking doesn’t mind me paraphrasing his book title as the title of this chapter!1 Just as in his book A Brief History of Time, we are about to begin an exploration of a universe of sorts, from its humble beginnings to its current state of being.

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© 2007 Frank W. Zammetti

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(2007). A Brief History of JavaScript. In: Practical JavaScript™, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0197-7_1

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