Java

Java is a simple object-oriented language created by Sun Microsystems.Sun: Introduction to JavaTM Technology It was originally developed as a processor-independent language that could control a variety of entertainment devices, including cable television.Sun: Java Technology: The Early Years

Object-oriented programming is a programming language model which is organized around the creation of objects and classes in order to minimize the need to re-type code.

""After we realized that there wasn't a business in digital cable television, we had a group meeting at The Inn at Squaw Creek near Lake Tahoe. We had to figure out what to do with this technology, or what to do with our lives."Sun: Java Technology: The Early Years

"Even though the Web had been around for 20 years or so, with FTP and telnet, it was difficult to use. Then Mosaic came out in 1993 as an easy-to-use front end to the Web, and that revolutionized people's perceptions. The Internet was being transformed into exactly the network that we had been trying to convince the cable companies they ought to be building. All the stuff we had wanted to do, in generalities, fit perfectly with the way applications were written, delivered, and used on the Internet. It was just an incredible accident. And it was patently obvious that the Internet and Java were a match made in heaven."Sun: Java Technology: The Early Years