Word: java
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last night, students in an introduction to Java programming class at the Harvard Extension School got the chance to show their work to representatives of Lycos, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation's Alta Vista...
...students are using Java, a programming language that operates across the web, to create new user interfaces. Browsers use the interface as a first level of access to the web and to search for new sites...
...down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises to make obsolete today's overstuffed computer operating systems and feature-heavy application programs--the bread and butter of their bitterest enemy, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates...
First to ship is Sun's JavaStation, a sleek, streamlined machine designed to make maximum use of the Java language (which Sun developed) and the vast storage capacity of the Internet (which runs largely on Sun's computer servers). Unlike most PCs, the JavaStation has no hard drive, doesn't play CD-ROMs and takes no floppies. Users are supposed to store their personal files on the servers and download whatever little application programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time...
...Windows 95 coding effort found themselves thanked, paid and returned to the front to battle Netscape. Line managers killed million-dollar projects and refocused entire divisions in the space of hours. In one instance, the company decided it needed to jump-start an effort to develop programs in the Java computer language, a key to creating Internet applications. So John Ludwig, a rising Microsoft star who runs the Internet tools group, simply walked into a room of programmers who were working on something else and told them to stop. Microsoft appreciated their efforts, he said, but a bigger challenge...