Well, the story is: in early days there were browser wars, it was Netscape (current Mozilla) against internet explorer. Microsoft was a big player and Netscape joined forces with Sun to fight with IE, they renamed their new programing language LiveScript to JavaScript and made it trademark (because Sun already owned Java) so that Microsoft could not copy it (narrator voice: Microsoft copied). Microsoft created another language which is named JScript. Later they gave up this fight and joined forces as ECMAScript, which is the official name of JS right now.
(Disclaimer: I didn't do any fact check, this is from my head as I remember it).
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Well, the story is: in early days there were browser wars, it was Netscape (current Mozilla) against internet explorer. Microsoft was a big player and Netscape joined forces with Sun to fight with IE, they renamed their new programing language LiveScript to JavaScript and made it trademark (because Sun already owned Java) so that Microsoft could not copy it (narrator voice: Microsoft copied). Microsoft created another language which is named JScript. Later they gave up this fight and joined forces as ECMAScript, which is the official name of JS right now.
(Disclaimer: I didn't do any fact check, this is from my head as I remember it).