A lot more details in this article about the history of Javascript and Brendan Eich's role in it:<p><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/04/06/js_history.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/04/06/js_his...</a><p>This was the press release put out by Netscape at the time:<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape...</a><p>Press coverage of the 1995 release of Javascript:<p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-05/business/fi-10557_1_programming-language" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-05/business/fi-10557_1_p...</a>