The Java language was created by James Gosling in June 1991 for use in one of his many set-top box projects.[4] The language was initially called Oak, after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling’s office—and also went by the name Green—and ended up later being renamed to Java, from a list of random words.[5] Gosling’s goals were to implement a virtual machine and a language that had a familiar C/C++ style of notation.[6] The first public implementation was Java 1.0 in 1995. It promised “Write Once, Run Anywhere” (WORA), providing no-cost runtimes on popular platforms. It was fairly secure and its security was configurable, allowing network and file access to be restricted.
