JavaScript was introduced in 1995 as a way to add programs to web pages in the Netscape Navigator browser
It is important to note that JavaScript has almost nothing to do with the programming language named Java
After its adoption outside of Netscape, a standard document was written to describe the way the JavaScript language should work so that the various pieces of software that claimed to support JavaScript were actually talking about the same language. This is called the ECMAScript standard, after the Ecma International organization that did the standardization. In practice, the terms ECMAScript and JavaScript can be used interchangeably—they are two names for the same language.