# How to fix the web

3 min read, 449 words brendan eich post

js was a rushjob, Sidekick language for sun's java language
Robin is now batman
Most widely used programming language in the world. javascript and python
1992 - only text on web
1993 - Marc Andreessen (opens new window) added <img> tag^[1]
1994 - Netscape created cookie (opens new window)
- piece of memory on your computer which website can control
- can put data into it and read it.
- statys on computer even after computer is turned off
1995 - javascript came along
Hotlinking (opens new window)
what is a web tracker? (opens new window)
- Malwaretising (opens new window)
- How did it happen?
- Hide the malicious code insode the image. very clever
- and ad gets placed into publishers website.
Browser - User agent
- they dont want to kill the fuse.
Use new generation tools and browsers. brave (opens new window)
Demos of open web technologies (opens new window)
HTML5 Notifications (opens new window)
js included in Netscape navigator months after the relase
- Single unified memory type
- No integers, only IEEE 754 double preision floating point
No one wants to use javascript in 2005-11 until
- 2008 javascript: the good parts book came out
- 2009 nodejs: asynchronous io libraries married to javascript virtual machine distributed as a single package.
  - problem, highly nested callbacks()
2013: asm.js

Let computer annotate the types for parameters and return values. They are good at this kind of thing mostly

preamble of C, python virtual machine compiled from C into asm.js
3 MB of asm code compiled, has entire C virtual machine, has compiler, runtime, garbage collector
Run virtual machines in browser repl.it (opens new window)
Cross-compiling
- able to run bash, zsh in browser
- havent made lot of progress in war times (opens new window)
GIMP: huge pile of C code - for windows
- wants to talk to win32 api closed-source
- wine opensourced implementaion of win32 api
- which wants to talk to X-windows, we create a shim for it
opensourced implementation of mac windowing system is called cacao propiotary is coco

# How Computer actually work?

Virtual Memory
- We want process like vim to corrupt the kernels memory and crash the entire system
Memeory Rings
- Ring 0 - access to hardware, kernel space, managed by OS ususlly
- Ring 3 - no direct access to hardware - application space
Function Calls
- Push registers
System Call
- that has to touch the hardware. read/write file.
- Happening everytime we read from a socket, or do pretty much anything on computer

web = Interconnected documents

Kernel = Programming Languague + Rendering primitive