# Some History

* **1995 :** Netscape creates a dynamic programming language named **JavaScript** that runs in the browser.
* **1995 :** Netscape enables backend JavaScript development with Netscape Enterprise Server.
* **1997 :** New **cross-browser** & **cross-platform** standard named **ECMAScript** and based on **JavaScript**.
* **1998 :** ECMAScript 2.
* **1999 :** ECMAScript 3.
* **2009 :** ECMAScript 5 *(a.k.a. ECMAScript 3.1)*.
* **2009 :** NodeJS.
* **June 2011 :** ECMAScript 5.1.
* **June 2015 :** ECMAScript 6 or ES2015.
* **June 2016 :** ECMAScript 7 or ES2016.
* **June 2017 :** ECMAScript 8 or ES2017.
* **June 2018 :** ECMAScript 9 or ES2018.