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- Starts in 1991.
- Originated by Sun Microsystems' James Gosling, et. al.
- Project code-named 'Green' to
produce products for the consumer electronics industry.
- Products had to be very small, and would
be based on multiple different computer architectures.
- Started with C++, but found it
unsatisfactory.
- Designed and wrote their own language,
initially called 'Oak', later became Java.
- Green
became 'First Person, Inc.', and produced its first
product, "
*7", an intelligent remote control,
but no-one was interested in it.
- At the same time, the World-Wide Web was
growing fast.
- Gosling et. al. realized that they could
write a 'real cool browser' in Java.
- Patrick Naughton and Jonathan Payne wrote
it, and it evolved into Sun's HotJava browser.
- HotJava was shown at SunWorld '95 on May
23, 1995.
- In the fall of 1995, Netscape decided to
make Netscape 2.0 Java-enabled, and released it in
January 1996.
- The Java craze started...
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