HotJava
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HotJava is a modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute Java applets. It was the first browser to support Java applets, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then new technology. It has since been discontinued and is now no longer supported.
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[edit] Origins
In 1994, a team of Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the internet browser Mosaic. It was based on the Java programming language. The name WebRunner was a tribute to the Blade Runner movie.
[edit] Internet Revolution
In 1995, John Gage and James Gosling took a few desktop workstations to the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference in Monterey, California. They were announcing WebRunner to the public. The conference was rather dull, since no one was excited about a Mosaic clone. Then Gosling moved the mouse over a picture of a 3D molecule. The molecule rotated with the mouse movement. Suddenly the room gasped, fascinated that now the internet was interactive. Next, Gosling and Gage pushed the audience over the edge with an animated line-sorting algorithm that Gosling had written.
