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Might be a reference to Netscape Enterprise Server[1], which had server-side JS in 1995?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Enterprise_Server

I did server-side programming in JavaScript in the late 90s. In retrospect it was a bad idea, but people were doing it. Note: this shouldn't be confused with the more recent node.js version of server-side JS.

Livewire, it was called, back when you bought your browser in a box at Best Buy.