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The document discusses the history and evolution of the Java programming language, originally designed for interactive televisions by a team known as the green team in 1991. Initially named 'Greentalk' and later 'Oak', it was renamed 'Java' in 1995, inspired by the coffee from the island of Java. The document highlights Java's widespread use in various applications and its continuous development, with the latest version being JDK 18.

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The document discusses the history and evolution of the Java programming language, originally designed for interactive televisions by a team known as the green team in 1991. Initially named 'Greentalk' and later 'Oak', it was renamed 'Java' in 1995, inspired by the coffee from the island of Java. The document highlights Java's widespread use in various applications and its continuous development, with the latest version being JDK 18.

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The JAVA journey!

As Java is quite difficult for students to understand, I would like to


share my point of view on various topics from now and then. Note to
everyone reading that I am also a newb and trying to learn java in
the easiest way. I mean who doesn’t love an easy way! Also my point
of view might make it more difficult or easier for you to understand.
And one more thing, my writing skill is not so good. Enough of my
blabbering. Now let's dive into it……………..

Where did it all start?


The history of Java is quite bizarre in my opinion.
Java was originally designed for interactive televisions!!
Unbelievable, right? You can search it up. Now to the obvious
question, who invented java? To answer this question, we have to go
back to 1991 when a team of three engineers known as green team
initiated the project of developing java language. The team was
formed by Mike Sheridan, Patric Naughton and James Gosling in
lead. Their goal was to make the language simple, powerful,
portable, platform independent, secured, object oriented and
dynamic. There may be some principles I missed so you can research
more if you want to. 4 years later, in 1995 they came up with the
language and James Gosling was crowned with Father of Java (and
now we are slaves of it…haha). Initially it was designed for small
systems. Later they understood that it is too advanced for small
systems. And from that point, Java started to march at its own
speed.

Was Java always “Java”?


At first, Java was named “Greentalk” by James Gosling. After that it
was called “Oak”, yeah you guessed right, like the “Oak” tree. Now let’s
see why Java was named after oak tree. The only reason was that
oak is considered a symbol of strength in many nations and oak is
also a national tree in the USA, France, Germany, Romania and some
other countries. Clever of the developers to name the language
“Oak” to make people believe that the language is a powerful one.
Later in 1995 “Oak” was renamed as “Java”. Now, another interesting
fact.
Java is the name of an island where the first coffee was produced
which is called “Java coffee”. Now you all can relate where that cup of
coffee icon in java came from. You can think of naming your own
programming language “Nescafe” while having a cup of coffee in
your office like James Gosling did.(haha…bad joke!)

Present times of Java


The first version of java “JDK 1.0” was released on january 23, 1996.
From then, new features have been added constantly. Now JDK
version 18 is running and 19 and 20 are available in early access.
Nowadays java is being widely used in windows applications, web
applications, games, mobile applications and so on. New features in
every version are keeping the popularity of java at its peak point.

Enough blabbering for today, this may help you a little bit(more little)
to understand the history of Java.

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