Thursday 14 January 2016
jQuery, the JavaScript library everyone loves to hate, has turned ten years old today. The library was first introduced in 2006 by John Resig, at BarCamp in New York City, as a side project he had worked on in college. Since then, the library has exploded in success and is now used on more than 77.8% of the Web — it’s become the overwhelmingly default way to write JavaScript, given that it makes it easier to perform a number of common tasks. Credit: WaybackmachineThe jQuery site as it appeared in 2006 When jQuery was released the internet was a very…
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