JSON

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

JavaScript Object Notation
JSON

   <programming> (JSON) {Syntax} for serialising {JavaScript}
   objects, often used as a data carrier format.  JSON is based
   on a subset of the JavaScript programming language.  It uses a
   file extension of .json and is considered a
   language-independent data format.

   (2008-05-28)