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I resent them for stealing the name of a beautiful island home to 145 million people. It’s so bad that even when you google Java while on Java island you get Or
by mushyhammer 5y ago
I resent them for stealing the name of a beautiful island home to 145 million people. It’s so bad that even when you google Java while on Java island you get Oracle stuff first (in incognito).
I was hoping to read about an actual boat trip to Java but I knew that on HN I’m more likely to find programming stuff.
For people who are unaware of the place, I suggest googling photos of “Java nature”
- embedded 5y agoI'm sorry about that. I might have been the one who originally suggested the name "Java" inspired by the cup of Peets coffee I had in my hand at the time. To be fair it would have been Kim Polese and Patrick Naughton and James and Arthur Van Hoff who made the final decision on the name from the suggestions thrown out in that meeting. And furthermore Yahoo search was dominant then, maybe with AltaVista, and the idea of polluting the search space hadn't occurred to anyone.
- mushyhammer 5y agoAre you telling me I left a random comment about something that happened 25+ years ago and the relevant person saw it within two hours? Mind blown :o Anyway it made sense at the time, it’s just unfortunate. The only redeeming part is that in Indonesian it’s actually spelled Jawa so it doesn’t affect locals too much
- uwagar 5y agoi recall learning java real early in 1997 from a nice book by patrick naughton. i was later shocked that patrick turned out to be a pedophile.