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title: "What is JavaScript?"  
description: "What is JavaScript?"  
author: "Nishi Tiwari"  
published: 2020-06-11  
updated: 2020-06-11  
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category: "javascript"  
tags: ["javascript"]  
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# What is JavaScript?

[Please tell me](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33900/please-tell-me-what-are-the-technique-to-content-optimization) about [JavaScript](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/874/how-to-create-watermark-text-for-textbox-by-using-javascript) with a suitable Images.

## Replies

### Reply by Nishi Tiwari

**JavaScript** is known as a dynamic computer programming language which is lightweight and most commonly used as a part of web pages and whose implementations allow the client-side script so that it interacts with the user and make the pages dynamic. JavaScript is also an [**interpreted programming language which has object-oriented capabilities.**](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/155984/what-do-you-understand-by-client-side-javascript)

Fisrtly ,JavaScript was known by its name as LiveScript, later Netscape has changed its name to JavaScript, that only because of the excitement which was generated by Java. It has made its first appearance in Netscape 2.0 in 1995 with the name LiveScript. The general-purpose for core of the language has been embedded in Netscape, Internet Explorer, and other web browsers present in the world.

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