JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
GBH

Announcing the NPR Student Podcast Challenge for 2026 — and a very special prize!

The annual contest for students in grades four through 12 is back for its eighth year — this time with a special prize for a podcast that marks the 250th anniversary of the United States.

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
NPR

Unlike the government, the quiz never stopped. Can you ace this week's test?

The shutdown has ended and POTUS was relatively subdued this week, making way for such matters of import as Garfield (the cat and the president) trivia, killer rodents and bro culture. How will you ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Code Quiz of the Week: No. 516

Take this weekly quiz to test your knowledge of the 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements. The Code Quiz features three questions that are presented in a Fill-in-the-Blank or Multiple ...