Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social

5/8/2025, 2:11:13 PM

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This day 30 years ago, a new employee at Netscape named Brendan Eich was hard at work creating a web scripting language called Mocha. It would soon be re-named JavaScript, in a dubious attempt to co-brand it with another new web programming language from May 1995, Java. https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/

p.s. according to @allenwbAllen Wirfs-Brock and Eich: "There is no known record of the specific dates but Brendan Eich believes it was May 6–15." https://zenodo.org/records/3707008#.X6XOHVMzbDo

#InternetHistory #JavaScript

1995: The Birth of JavaScript

JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The idea was to extend the early Web beyond the limits of HTML.

cybercultural.com · Cybercultural

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