All the ways Javascript ends up in your server
2025-08-06
"'In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and been widely regarded as a Dick move'- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Introduction
Picture this: It's 1995. The web is a graveyard of static pages—lifeless text and images that never change, never respond. You click a link, wait for a new page to load. That's it. No animations, no real-time anything.
Then Brendan Eich gets handed an impossible task: create a programming language for the web. In ten days. Ten days. What should have been months of careful design became a frantic sprint that would accidentally reshape the entire internet.
Javascript wasn't supposed to conquer the world. It was supposed to add simple interactions—maybe validate a form, change some text. But something strange happened. Developers discovered they could do more with this scrappy little language than anyone imagined.
Fast-forward to the early 2000s, and Javascript had become the invisible engine powering every website you visited. What started as a quick hack had evolved into the foundation of the modern web.
The Creator of StackOverflow 
Jeff Atwood has a great quote about Javascript:
“Anything that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” - Atwood's law
Have you ever seen a fire spread across a forest? It starts small , everytime ... maybe a couple of feet. But it grows and grows, and eventually it becomes a forest fire. That's what happens when you have a language accessible to everyone, it spreads like a wildfire , burning through complexity and ending up on systems that are not designed to handle it, like the web.
A phenomenon like this was only seen once... by a single other program that predates javascript. you know it and love it....
