JavaScript is one of the most influential programming languages in web development.
Invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 1995, JavaScript was designed to make web pages interactive and enable dynamic content.
Standardized as ECMAScript, JavaScript became widely adopted with ECMAScript 3, laying the foundation for modern JavaScript.
The rise of AJAX and Web 2.0, along with advancements like the V8 engine, ECMAScript 6, and JavaScript frameworks, contributed to the modern JavaScript era.