Well, Java was still in beta as late as 1996 and the Internet was a huge part of why it was attractive. I built my first company using it. Big mistake. It was e

Well, Java was still in beta as late as 1996 and the Internet was a huge part of why it was attractive. I built my first company using it. Big mistake. It was extremely buggy and slow. Something like StackOverflow would have been a huge help to our development team.