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.