Java is an object-oriented programming language developed at Sun Microsystems by a team led by James Gosling, which started work in 1991 under the name Oak. It was publicly released in 1995 and promoted with the slogan write once, run anywhere, because programs are compiled into bytecode that runs on a virtual machine available for many types of computers. Early on it became known for applets, small programs that ran in web browsers, but its greatest success came in business software, server applications and, later, in Android apps. Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 and continues to develop the language. Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages in the world.
Before and after
- 1995Creation of Ruby
- 1995Dogme 95
- 1995Creation of Red Hat Linux
- 1995Founding of European Ombudsman
- 1995Creation of Java
- 1995Actor Awards
- 1995Discovery of Little Foot
- 1995Samashki massacre
- 1 January 1995Founding of World Trade Organization
More in Science & technology
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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