Word: java
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more powerful technology has promised to increase the effectiveness of Trojan Horses even more. The Java language--written by Sun Microsystems--allows you to write applications which will automatically be run when accessed over...
...invent such a technology? One glance at what you can do with Java, and most people are immediately convinced that it's a good thing. And it is. Java allows you to extend the capability of your Web browser, enabling you to incorporate useful real-time applications into your browser or play nifty animations and sounds...
...prevent any unwelcome invasions, Java's design emphasizes security. For instance, you cannot write an application in Java which will delete your hard drive or e-mail the contents of your hard drive to another person. Additionally, Java browsers come preconfigured to reject Java applications from untrusted computers...
...will take more than sweatshirts and coffee mugs to shore up the security of the Internet. The network was designed to be open and easily accessible, and new Internet software, like Sun Microsystems' Java, adds a whole new layer of insecurity. Java can liven up a Website with movies and animations sent to visitors' computers as little applications, or "applets." Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser...
Cybercafes (which typically charge $5 to $10 an hour to log on, though many provide discounted or free access with the purchase of food and drink) offer other high-tech icebreakers as well, such as CD-ROMs and new videogames. In Los Angeles, Cyber Java draws crowds with its videophone facilities. Cyber Cafe offers classes in Net navigation and Web-page authoring. At Cybersmith in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the country's grandest computer playland cum restaurant, regulars can congregate around a virtual-reality flight simulator ready for testing...