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0:00 – Introduction
1:53 – History of early programming languages
6:46 – Physics needs more experiments and less theory
11:23 – JavaScript origin story
36:16 – JavaScript was created in 10 days
45:56 – Marc Andreessen
49:13 – Internet Explorer
52:57 – Evolution of JavaScript
58:43 – Javascript standardization
1:04:33 – TypeScript
1:07:04 – JavaScript ecosystem
1:10:14 – HTML5
1:13:46 – Making JavaScript fast
1:22:56 – JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
1:33:22 – Advice for programmers
1:39:19 – Browser wars
1:45:49 – Firefox
2:07:32 – Brave
2:20:32 – Basic Attention Token
2:45:35 – California
2:54:47 – Mortality
2:55:53 – Legacy
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