I think it was actually first created for devices (specifically set top boxes) but never really found a home there and then someone wrote a browser in it (HotJa

I think it was actually first created for devices (specifically set top boxes) but never really found a home there and then someone wrote a browser in it (HotJava) that supported executable content and it took off from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#Hi...