Qbasic and nibbles/gorilla was around at the start of the 90s, but the proposal was 90s/00s which is basically the time period of the internet pre mobile phone.
No, late 90's and very early 00's were almost devoid of JS and it was anecdoctical. It was Flash and some ActiveX malware, if not both.
And NPAPI/IE plugins for video players and such.
