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== History ==
=== Background ===
The origins of Java go back to 1990. The personal computer was in its ascendancy, and many inside and outside Sun thought the company had missed major opportunities in the desktop markets. Its high-end workstation and server markets were rolling along fine, but as PC use spread across the landscape, the company faced being stranded in a narrowing slice of the computer market. Sun machines had a reputation for being too complicated, too ugly, and too nerdy for mass consumption.
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Later, they were trying to find a market for a StarSeven-type of device. The TV set-top box and video-on-demand industries seemed to make the most sense. Unfortunately, those industries were in their infancy and still trying to settle on viable business models.
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{{Cquote|We were pitching the cable companies on the idea that this is what your network should look like. It was interactive, and users could read and write information into the system. But the companies didn't want to lose that much control.
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{{Cquote|While today's Web is mostly a static brew - a grand collection of electronically linked brochures - Java holds the promise of caffeinating the Web, supercharging it with interactive games and animation and thousands of application programs nobody's even thought of.||| David Bank (December, 1995) "[https://web.archive.org/web/20050420023839/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/java.saga.html The Java Saga]" Wired Magazine}}
=== Netscape ===
{{Cquote|The public announcement of Java technology has been scheduled as a part of the keynote speech at the SunWorld show kick-off. But then, an unexpected turn of events ocurs.
It is about 4 am, in a Sheraton Palace hotel room down the street from the convention center. Sun's Eric Schmidt and George Paolini are shaking hands with Netscape's Marc Andreessen on an agreement to integrate Java technology into the Navigator browser.
Andreessen agreed to step out on stage during the morning's keynote speech and reveal the surprise agreement as part of the Java technology announcement. Most of the Java team didn't know the agreement has taken place until the moment Andreessen and the Sun execs walk on stage. }}
=== Javascript ===
{{Cquote|Hype ensued. With that hype came JavaScript, a language whipped up by Netscape engineer Brendan Eich in 10 days in 1995 to be featured in the forthcoming Navigator 2.0. The JavaScript name usually taken to be a quick cash-in on the Java buzz of the time. JavaScript promised much of the same web functionality as Java.
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