The Early Days of Java

Java was the new hotness during the Dot Com boom period of the 1990s. It was the first mainstream object oriented language that worked great on the client and server. Although it was billed as "write once, run everywhere," it still needed work in the early days and we were fond of saying "write once, debug everywhere."

The big selling point of Java was it could be complied and run as an applet inside a web browser's Java Virtual Machine. It was the first executable mobile code for the Web. Java became everything Ada wanted to be and JavaScript became everything Java applets wanted to be. It's funny how that happens.