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Judging Java Timeline Pre-1995

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Image = pop-up sidebar		ImageJan. 15, 1991
Image Green Project begins.

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– James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton start work on “Oak.”

Image Gosling creates “Oak” language.

– Oak project officially incorporated as “FirstPerson.”

Image		 1993
Image TV Settop OS sale fails.		 April 93
Image Mosaic browser released.

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– Oak repurposed as a Web-centric programming language, renamed Java.

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– FirstPerson broken up, its projects redistributed to Sun Interactive and LiveOak. Gosling develops browser “Webrunner” (later renamed HotJava) to demonstrate usefulness of Java in Web development.

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– Java compiler, originally written in C, rewritten in Java. (Writing the compiler in the same language is a milestone in the development of a new language.)		Image May 23
Image Java officially announced at SunWorld Expo 95 by John Gage and Marc Andreessen.

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Image		 May 27
– JDK 1.0 alpha released. World gets first real look at Java. 		September 21
Image First unofficial “Java Day” event in New York.

Image		 October
Image Gamelan Web site launches.

Image		 October 30
Image Internet World Boston: Major vendors license Java. 		November
Image Second (but the first “official”) Sun Java Day.

Image		 November
Image Sun forms JavaSoft division dedicated to pushing Java. 		December 4
Image Netscape announces JavaScript.

Image		 December 6
Image IBM and Adobe license Java.

December 7
Image Microsoft licenses Java. 		Summary of 1995:
From zero to 60 in 10 months: Java leaps into the public consciousness in 1995 as a dazzling client-side applet-maker, bringing dancing heads and interactivity to Web pages, and fueling visions of running roughshod over Microsoft.		 Go to:
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