A Brief History of JavaScript from the Deno team highlights that JavaScript is now 30 years old. It’s interesting to note that Internet Explorer 5 introduced the first web request technology in 1999. Five years later, in 2004, Gmail launched, followed by the coining of the term AJAX in 2005. By 2006, jQuery’s `$.ajax` had greatly enhanced usability. There’s also an intriguing fact about Gmail’s launch.
A Concise History of JavaScript – Frontend Masters Blog
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