[tjansen]

I assume you have never used VBScript, which was the major alternative back then.

[toyg]

VBScript is actually a later development, in reaction to JS (or "DHTML", as we called it back then). But yeah, it was pretty bad too.

[icedchai]

Not by much. VBScript was available with Internet Explorer 3.0, which was released in 1996. It was only a little later than early JS.

[bdcravens]

I worked at a computer store/ISP - the owner was a VB guy, and coded up some stuff on our intranet in it. I recall his shock that it didn't work in Netscape.