the past? There's an excellent blog called "The History Of The Web". Thanks to Jay Hoffman, the writer of the blog, I've been fascinated by the roots of the web.

On August 6, 1991 Tim Berners-Lee puts the first website online. A few months later, on October 29 of the same year, the first HTML draft is posted on the www-talk mailing list.

Three years went by until Netscape Navigator, the most popular browser at the time, was released on October 13, 1994. It took Microsoft almost a year longer to release their own Internet Explorer 1 on August 15 of 1995. In December of 1996, the first iteration for CSS was conceptualised.

Mozilla released Firefox more than ten years after the beginning of the web in 2004. Only a fewinto a completely different, broader platform.

It's only in more recent years that we've been able to observe – and be part of – the unique phenomenon of the JavaScript world. While the language has been around since the nineties, it were frameworks like Ember, Backbone and Angular that opened a whole new area the web could grow in.

It's impossible to pinpoint an exact date on when people started looking at JavaScript as something more than a simple scripting language. But there are a few milestones worth mentioning.

jQuery's initial release in August, 2006.

AngularJS was released in October, 2010.

React saw the light in March, 2013.

Especially with the modern frameworks, better syntax was required; and projects like Babel came into view. This is where it starts to get real interesting: JavaScript