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JavaScript was originally called "LiveScript", and the Java/LiveScript glue was (in fact is still) called "LiveConnect"; Netscape's server-side JavaScript product is called "LiveWire"; generically Netscape referred to browser-side objects (plugins, applets) as "Live Objects".
23 May 95 - Netscape license Java
18 Sep 95 - Navigator 2.0 beta ships with "LiveScript"
4 Dec 95 - Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (renaming of LS)
?early 96 - Navigator 2.0 final ships, LS now "JavaScript"
15 Nov 96 - ECMA start work on standardising JavaScript
Jun 97 - ECMAScript standard (ECMA-262) released
Microsoft refer to their scripting language as JScript.
[This info was put together by Paul Bennett]