Sadly this isn't the first time I've seen that logo (it's actually a modified version of the Java logo that changes the text to "JavaScript" in the same font).

Sadly this isn't the first time I've seen that logo (it's actually a modified version of the Java logo that changes the text to "JavaScript" in the same font). Because the quasi official JS logo (black letters "JS" in the bottom right of a yellow square) looks less "logo-ish" than this it's often used by people unfamiliar with the language. Another terrible fake logo that apparently looks more logo-ish than the real logo is the modified HTML5 logo that typically colours the shield yellow (because HTML is red and CSS is blue) and alters the "5" to the letters "JS" or simply "J" or "S" (or even "6" for ES6). EDIT: some googling shows this Java-derived logo has been around at least since 2010 though probably even earlier. The official community logo was initially announced at JSConf 2011: https://github.com/voodootikigod/logo.js/ https://github.com/voodootikigod/logo.js/