Steve Champeon has written the first of a series of
articles on the
history of JavaScript:
Disdain for a language that apparently required no skill to use, lacked an
IDE and a reliable cross-platform debugger, and could only be tested in
the context of the actual browser in which the page will be viewed,
combined with a few highly publicized security flaws and several books
aimed at non-programmers, caused many to write off JavaScript as a
“simple” language for beginners and overshadowed its amazing potential.

the site is so nice for us specially the beginners. it gives allot of information. i suggest request for the history of the javascript when it was began and where.