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Server side JS is older than that. It existed over 20 years ago. Does anyone remember Netscape Livewire?

It was basically "ASP-style" server-side javascript that ran on Netscape's "Enterprise" web server. It was a little unstable, but pretty advanced for the time (had DB connectivity, etc.)




While we're at it, ASP itself had JavaScript (well, JScript, technically) support alongside VBScript, out of the box. It wasn't particularly popular, probably because anyone doing ASP was likely to be using the rest of MS stack - and that meant VB for desktop LOB apps, usually.




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