In 1996 the internet was changing. Netscape Navigator 2.0 was in public beta, and a new language had just been introduced. Whilst many web developers baulked at the introduction of Sun’s Java language and the need to learn yet another language to programme in, Java ended up being one of the most successful and versatile web languages. Without it, the internet as we now know it would not exist. Click the image below to see what Simon Bisson thought at the dawn of a new language.
Java – cooking up the Web from PC Plus 112, February 1996
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