Preface
Back in the spring of 1995, web browsers were very different from present day browsers. It had been 4 years since the release of the WorldWideWeb (the first Internet browser written by Tim Berners-Lee, later renamed Nexus), 2 years since the initial release of Mosaic, and Internet Explorer 1.0 was a few months away from release. The World Wide Web began to show signs of popularity, and though some of the big companies showed interest in the field, the main disruptor back then was a small company named Netscape.
Netscape's already popular browser, Netscape Navigator, was in the works for its second version, when the client engineering team and co-founder Marc Anderseen decided that Navigator 2.0 should embed a programming language. The task ...
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