* The Java history started to be written when James Gosling, Patrick Naughton and Mike Sheridan joined two Sun Microsystems founders, Andy Bechtolsheim e Bill Joy, to think about the new wave in the digital world.
* They diverted their efforts to develop a language for televisions, set-top boxes and many more digital devices.
* They soon realized that the new wave would be the convergence of computers and devices used in the day to day life. Everything interconnected and controlled remotely.
* This way, they started the Green Project. The goal of the Green Project was to create a system that would allow to build a distributed and heterogeneous network of consumer electronic devices, all communicating with each other. They chose the challenge of creating a software environment that would be super cool (yes, this was one of the requirements!), interesting to the consumer market and at the same time attractive to software developers. The system should involve art and design, and it should be implemented by a small group of people in less than one year. The goal was not easy.
* In the initial task division, Mike Sheridan was responsible for business development, Patrick Naughton for the graphic system, and James Gosling (the project leader) was responsible for finding the right programming language for the project. During one year and a half, the Green Project got new members and became a team of 13 people.
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is a picture of the Green Project team
* This project was started in June 1991. They invested their efforts to develop a language for televisions, set-top boxes and many more digital devices.
* Initially it was designed for small, embedded systems in electronic devices. But now it’s expanding above its limits.
* Project was unsuccessful because no one wanted to use it.
* James Gosling named Java Language as “Greentalk” whose extension was .gt. Later it was named as Oak, but in 1995 it was renamed as “Java” because it was already the trademark of Oak Technologies.
* Oak was developed as a part of the Green project.
* Oak is a symbol of strength and chosen as a national tree of many countries like U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania etc.
* The team gathered to choose a new name. The suggested words were "dynamic", "revolutionary", "Silk", "jolt", "DNA" etc. They wanted something that reflected the essence of the technology: revolutionary, dynamic, lively, cool, unique, and easy to spell and fun to say.
* According to James Gosling "Java was one of the top choices along with Silk". Since java was so unique, most of the team members preferred java.
* Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).
* Notice that Java is just a name not an acronym.
* Originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995.
* In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.
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