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> Notably, these browsers have never implemented support for VBScript.

This reads mildly accusatory and got a chuckle out of me.

I'm surprised it took them this long!

Folks who complain about Javascript don't realise how close we were to having vbscript as the dominant web language

yeah we should have a language that was built in a day instead of a week. move fast.

In a slightly different universe, CERN gave Tim Berners-Lee a windows workstation instead of a NeXT Cube and www was built on top of Microsoft Word and VBScript.

> www was built on top of Microsoft Word and VBScript

Ah, that would be Internet Explorer.

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