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The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of JavaScript in the Web

In 1993, Mark Riesen and Eric Bina hooked up the image element in HTML. In 1994, Lumon tooli added the cookie so that when you logged into a website and then shut your browser down, you wouldn't have to reload again. JavaScript was the third fuel on the fire Element here because images and cookies were a little bit clumsy.

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