History of JavaScript with Toby Ho, presented by Atlanta JavaScript

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00:03 : okay I'm time myself 15 minutes all
00:06 : right
00:06 : um the couple months ago
00:10 : reiax talked about how pervasive
00:14 : javascript is I'm going to I'm going to
00:19 : try to do the prequel to that sort of
00:23 : explore a little bit how we got to this
00:26 : point let's see so for the old-timers is
00:31 : this would be like traveling back in
00:33 : time for the youngsters this will be an
00:37 : actual lesson also the ninety it all
00:40 : starts in the nineties and if you are
00:45 : one of my students me for my students
00:49 : here come on then then you know I'm
00:53 : obsessed about the 90s so in the 90s I
00:56 : was in college this guy invented the
01:00 : internet and I'm when I was in college I
01:02 : remember my roommate in my dorm
01:07 : he showed me something he made in
01:10 : JavaScript I just got that him then we
01:14 : use Java JavaScript is for we need to we
01:17 : use job that that that's what real
01:21 : programmers use he showed me some like
01:26 : mouse over hover effects over and it
01:29 : swaps the image of the button so to make
01:33 : it look like it was depressed that was a
01:37 : cool thing back then so this guy Tim
01:40 : berners-lee she is the inventor of the
01:43 : World Wide Web
01:44 : and one of his first projects towards
01:47 : that was the first ever web browser this
01:51 : is what it looks like he built it on the
01:53 : next operating system how many people
01:57 : know about the next operation oh pretty
02:00 : cool so next is precursor to the OS 10
02:06 : systems that you use on Macs today
02:10 : there's there's a really interesting
02:12 : story behind that how steep drops cut
02:15 : out stood out for some company
02:17 : all that you shouldn't read about it I
02:21 : don't time to go into a dope
02:22 : so the browser Wars even before the
02:28 : browser wars that we know it I feel like
02:32 : there's like sort of three phases to the
02:34 : browser Wars I mean talk about their hip
02:36 : first one took place around 1993 the
02:41 : mosaic course even before Netscape and
02:44 : ie and all that so there's some browsers
02:48 : were actually text-based and use the
02:50 : users in college with telnet into the
02:54 : system the UNIX system is the University
02:58 : for our dorm room learn how we browse
03:01 : the web but but it links this call links
03:04 : you can still use this you can like blue
03:07 : install links and it works is cool we
03:09 : try this is the first graphical of web
03:13 : browser called mosaic it was the first
03:17 : champion is the first winner under this
03:20 : group and just do the champion of
03:22 : browsers and then came Netscape Netscape
03:26 : was basically a fork of mosaic and
03:32 : Netscape exploded for a while and if you
03:40 : imagine that you are the people working
03:43 : at Netscape and this was the year 1995
03:48 : you're thinking this is amazing right
03:53 : like we've gotta like just within one
03:58 : year we got from zero percent market
04:01 : share to 70 percent mortgaging we're
04:03 : going to dominate the world we're
04:05 : selling this browser on a CD at 30 bucks
04:10 : a pop we're going to be rich like to
04:14 : look to take mail-in orders this is
04:17 : another CD see you at home
04:19 : it's going to be amazing and that that
04:25 : happens also to coincide with the that
04:27 : come bubble that's cool um Microsoft
04:31 : came
04:31 : along and they saw this happens is that
04:35 : that's not okay we got do something
04:38 : about that so they use their there
04:44 : they're very famous was called a static
04:51 : embrace and extend strategy thank you
04:53 : I lost informal embrace and extend their
04:57 : your reverse-engineer the product and
04:59 : they'll make it better and I think
05:02 : people are stuck with it
05:03 : um and that that did actually work and
05:07 : then there's the third character in this
05:09 : story is Sun Microsystems you might know
05:12 : them as the people who created Java and
05:17 : actually the main product that they were
05:21 : selling was actually some away which is
05:24 : a UNIX operating system um they also
05:28 : made Java but they were not really
05:32 : making not planning to make money with
05:33 : Java the idea was since Microsoft was
05:38 : winning the war on operating systems
05:41 : they're gonna sort of nullify the
05:43 : operating system and make a programming
05:45 : language that can run on any operating
05:48 : system um so that was their big thing
05:51 : the right Java want it can run anywhere
05:54 : and even in a browser what if you can
05:58 : make Java runs in a browser than anyone
06:01 : in the world that has a browser and run
06:03 : Java so that was the idea you don't need
06:08 : Windows to run your software anymore all
06:10 : you need is job and because Microsoft
06:16 : was clearing the gorilla or the Goliath
06:22 : to the David these two little guys
06:25 : Netscape net gave was the sort of
06:27 : up-and-coming rising star and Sun
06:29 : Microsystems was sort of the leg art
06:31 : they decided to team up each other
06:34 : against Microsoft there this is
06:36 : Microsoft this evil empire we have to
06:39 : stick together to fight them today they
06:44 : create form
06:45 : Alliance and as part of that alliance
06:52 : excited we're going to put Java inside
06:54 : of Netscape the web browser the web
06:56 : browser that everybody is going to be
06:58 : using we already at 70% market share
07:01 : it's going to be 100 percent pretty soon
07:03 : I'm gonna put Java in there everybody
07:05 : using Java we don't have to worry about
07:08 : Microsoft anymore
07:12 : that was applet great stories clear -
07:19 : yeah applets was a big success success
07:21 : yeah but there's a little bit of a
07:23 : complication because Netscape already
07:25 : were planning on creating their own
07:28 : programming language with browsers
07:29 : called slice tips and before they had
07:36 : this came up with that idea of this
07:38 : alliance he said oh we want to put this
07:41 : thing called live skipping and put it in
07:43 : that game so now it becomes live script
07:48 : versus Java which one are you going to
07:50 : put in the browser there was a lot of a
07:55 : business of confrontation there and one
08:02 : flash of genius by this man
08:06 : who's dick man mark intrusion yeah
08:10 : that's not a costume by the way
08:14 : but uh one flash of genius from Marc
08:18 : Andreessen he said I know how to solve
08:21 : this problem we will call it JavaScript
08:27 : we they renamed live script through
08:30 : JavaScript and it became a co-branding
08:33 : thing yes the Java and there's Java's
08:36 : little brother JavaScript let's do this
08:39 : that's why we have job seekers but
08:43 : delicate as most of you know javascript
08:46 : is not Java
08:47 : you're not interoperable you're not
08:51 : related even remotely but they all share
08:56 : the same protection come
08:59 : and although as part of that agreement
09:01 : Sun Microsystems owns the trademark of
09:05 : JavaScript so that's interesting
09:07 : you wanted cool JavaScript now Oracle
09:13 : Oracle bought Sun so now our going to
09:17 : the trade market does ok JavaScript 1995
09:25 : the first version of java script
09:29 : appeared sort of second version of
09:33 : javascript appear 1996 but not really so
09:39 : Microsoft said well jazz gets this is a
09:42 : problem we have to embrace and extend
09:45 : these things so Microsoft made chase
09:48 : with not javascript jscript
09:51 : looks suspiciously like JavaScript and
09:54 : then jscript is running on IE now and no
10:01 : IE took off once it was installed on
10:07 : windows by default because of that was
10:14 : netscape but then when Microsoft did
10:18 : this Netscape got rebooked and they said
10:23 : they can't let them do this embrace an
10:25 : extent thing to us just like they did to
10:29 : all the other software company there's
10:32 : been love I didn't talk
10:36 : digitalis one but so well what what was
10:43 : the things that preceded Microsoft Word
10:46 : word per word perfect yeah so yeah the
10:50 : people word there's word perfect before
10:52 : Excel that was B seek help loaded Lotus
10:54 : one two one two three and then another
10:57 : email thing before Outlook there was the
11:04 : I forgot that yeah yeah so yeah so
11:11 : Microsoft have all that MIT netscape's
11:13 : said I'm not having that I'm going to
11:16 : make JavaScript a standard they for some
11:21 : reason everybody hated Netscape in the
11:24 : United States they were they're like
11:29 : this rap and and so the only thing they
11:32 : could do is find someone in Europe who
11:34 : standardized JavaScript code on there
11:36 : was the hikmah committee and they found
11:40 : someone to do that seven
11:45 : since then we had several big mess with
11:48 : versions Emma scripts six is the one
11:52 : that you're hearing a lot about today
11:54 : although it also recently the versions
11:57 : even change and it's supposed to be yes
12:01 : 2015 now it was like by pardon biggest
12:05 : upgrade to their language um yeah so
12:14 : after after its nest after I eat off the
12:19 : next escapes kind of side be pretty
12:23 : rapid death however I was good Nizam and
12:26 : that was largely because of the standard
12:29 : of JavaScript this is the fact and
12:31 : allocate it is at least possible
12:33 : although very painful is that these
12:36 : possible to write JavaScript that works
12:41 : on multiple browsers Netscape died the
12:47 : Mozilla Foundation came about and
12:49 : continued that work on the rebranded to
12:53 : Firefox 2005 is what I call the rebirth
12:57 : of JavaScript there was the start of
13:00 : Gmail Google Map Ajax Google rails is
13:07 : something that propelled JavaScript in
13:11 : that it bundled a fancy JavaScript
13:15 : library
13:16 : out-of-the-box the prototypes and
13:20 : spectacular a lot of people made use of
13:23 : that to make very simple easy but very
13:27 : cool effects with their web application
13:31 : something that traditionally traditional
13:34 : web applications did not have we also
13:36 : got the Firebug today you use chrome dev
13:39 : tools back back in the day everyone used
13:41 : fire book then 2006 we got jQuery which
13:48 : would really change the game again is
13:51 : tml 5 that started 2008 and Google
13:56 : Chrome was a big deal muqaam was a brand
14:01 : new JavaScript engine created by math
14:05 : genius like programming language in
14:09 : implement implementer that who used to
14:13 : work on Java and small talk but he knows
14:18 : how to make a programming language fast
14:24 : the scene 2000 in mind was was sort of
14:29 : like a like a point where JavaScript got
14:35 : so big due to all these new innovations
14:38 : I just popped off that somebody because
14:41 : if we need a conference just about
14:44 : JavaScript and then after that or at
14:48 : that conference was what nodejs was
14:52 : first introduced but it was sort of like
14:54 : all this all this of this stuff that was
14:59 : just waiting to be shown to the world
15:03 : and nodejs was that it was fun it was
15:08 : the first out of the conference
15:10 : that launched no GS and it just took off
15:14 : because of various reasons 2010 flash
15:20 : side and then after that basically it
15:26 : was a little bit early Steve Jobs just
15:29 : came out
15:30 : we made this thing is not going to have
15:33 : flash on it and the second day all the
15:35 : flash developers switch the JavaScript
15:37 : that's what happens so after that it was
15:39 : all jobs that we have tons more
15:42 : innovations with JavaScript let's what
15:51 : led to react presentation a few months
15:56 : ago my time is up any question okay all
16:04 : right
16:05 : Mitch you ready
16:12 : [Applause]