3 years ago

Last month saw an interesting remembrance of internet history on the podcast of Lex Fridman, an AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fridman sat down for a three-hour conversation with Brendan Eich, a man best known as the original creator of the JavaScript programming language.

Eich went on to co-found the Mozilla community, as well as the Mozilla Foundation, which develops open source projects like the Firefox web browser, and in 2015 became the CEO of Brave Software, which created the innovative ad-blocking web browser Brave.

I’m not saying that was the best language, I’m just saying that was the right time to do it.

But it was a time of dreaming big, and Eich also remembers brainstorming with Andreessen, who before their IPO was making bold claims like “Netscape plus Java kills Windows” and daring to imagine the farthest possible implications of a world where programs are being run by your web browser.