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>created Java, the programming language that formed the >foundation for much of today’s internet How did Java help the enable the Internet? There’s a discuss
by WhitneyLand 8y ago
>created Java, the programming language that formed the
>foundation for much of today’s internet
How did Java help the enable the Internet?
There’s a discussion to be had about it’s significance to programming languages, but I don’t see how the Internet would have flourished any less without it.
Seems it could be argued Java was an obstacle to the Internet w.r.t. it’s role in the history of various fat tech ideas that tried and failed to become a defacto browser standard.
With all due respect to his successes, I’m not quite sure which of those is the source of getting credit for creating the foundation of the Internet.
Sun didn’t invent HTTP and didn’t sell the only computers that could run a web server.
- gaius 8y agoSun didn’t invent HTTP and didn’t sell the only computers that could run a web server. If the web had been built on NFS they might have a case.