Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/October 15

Today in 1996 Netscape introduced the first server-side JavaScript implementation LiveWire, foreshadowing a “JavaScript everywhere” future in a great return of this kind of technology: After the similar Node.js arrived in 2009, with significantly improved performance by leveraging newer just-in-time compilation, JavaScript went on to become the most widely used programming language of all time. The Node Package Manager lists more software modules than any other software repository before.