The history of Java

Java is language that was developed as software for interactive TV programs and VCRs.  Users could interact with on-screen pictures, select the time to watch programs, change the camera angle by their choice, and many more. A microprocessor chip was needed to be embedded in the TV system and the software to run the programs.

James Gosling, engineer at the Sun Systems, by of novel idea which would free manufacturers not to be dependent on a particular brand of the chip used in the TV. In the year of January 1991, Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun micro system, with James Gosling and Patrick Naughton, gives the specifications for the software to be used for these interactive TVs.

The highlights of the specification were in which the software should be compatible along with all the existing hardware at the similar time occupy as little memory space as possible.

Among February 1991 and September 1992, an OS was developed those  guidelines,  that  was  known as  Green  and  a  programming, language interpreter known as the Oak. But later Oak was renamed as Java within 1995.

The  main  motivation  for  Java  was  the  required  for  a  platform-independent that is Architecture-Neutral  language  which  could  be  used  to  make  software  to  be embedded in several consumer electronic devices, like as microwave ovens and remote controls.

Gosling's team created a web browser, known as the Hot Java using Java which would download Java programs nesting on the web pages and use them to animate information on the pages.