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jQuery didn't even incept that, prototype.js did. Prototype is probably the first real jS library that moved the language (along with Dojo, Mochi, etc) from scriplets ("DHTML") to actual UI interactivity. That + XMLHttpRequest ("Ajax") were the direct progenitors to jQuery, which was used to bootstrap or complement all of the early "frameworks".

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I came here looking for this comment; it seems prototype is always forgotten about as part of the "before frameworks" discussion. I remember bringing up using prototype to my coworkers in 2006/2007 (the director was a stickler for having clickable buttons that had a specific width on the left and right of the text, so I proposed using prototype to set that automatically). I recall my coworkers being mostly confounded by it and how to use it.

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