Q 01/05

Who created JavaScript in 1995?

A) Brendan Eich

B) Tim Berners-Lee

C) James Gosling

D) Guido van Rossum

Answer · why

A) Brendan Eich

He went on to co-found the Firefox maker and later the Brave browser company.

Q 02/05

At which company was JavaScript created, for its Navigator browser?

A) Sun Microsystems

B) Microsoft

C) Silicon Graphics

D) Netscape

Answer · why

D) Netscape

Its founders had built Mosaic, the first popular graphical browser, and wanted Navigator to do more than display static pages.

Q 03/05

What was the language called when it first shipped in a Navigator beta in September 1995?

A) WebScript

B) NetScript

C) LiveScript

D) EasyScript

Answer · why

C) LiveScript

The name switched to JavaScript for the official release that December, riding the hype around Sun's new language.

Q 04/05

JavaScript's creator was originally recruited to embed which existing language in the browser?

A) Perl

B) Scheme

C) Tcl

D) Python

Answer · why

B) Scheme

Management then decided the new language should look like Java instead, which is why the syntax owes so little to Lisp.

Q 05/05

In December 1995, which company jointly announced JavaScript with the browser maker in a press release?

A) Oracle Corporation

B) Sun Microsystems

C) Silicon Graphics

D) Apple Computer

Answer · why

B) Sun Microsystems

Its creator has called the JavaScript name a marketing ploy to piggyback on a hotter language's popularity.