I remember, it was a cool evening in mid 90s, and we were all so excited. No one in my group could shut up talking about it, and how amazing the next day would be, and how everything in the tech would change and the world would never be the same again. It was the biggest thing that happened since the release of Netscape Navigator, and this was going to make up for the feeling of being let then.
Yes, it was the day that Java was unleashed on the world and after starting the download of 5 MB over the whole night, we came in early morning to admire the fish we had caught. When we finally blitzed through the HOWTO docs and managed to write our first Java applet using the sample code and fired it up, the animated jelly beans (was that what it was?) gave us goosebumps for all of 10 seconds, before we decided never to fall for any hype whatsoever, ever.
Years later while doing my first job, when I herd that Java was running on 1 billion devices, I threw up a little in my mouth.
I remember, it was a cool evening in mid 90s, and we were all so excited. No one in my group could shut up talking about it, and how amazing the next day would be, and how everything in the tech would change and the world would never be the same again. It was the biggest thing that happened since the release of Netscape Navigator, and this was going to make up for the feeling of being let then.
Yes, it was the day that Java was unleashed on the world and after starting the download of 5 MB over the whole night, we came in early morning to admire the fish we had caught. When we finally blitzed through the HOWTO docs and managed to write our first Java applet using the sample code and fired it up, the animated jelly beans (was that what it was?) gave us goosebumps for all of 10 seconds, before we decided never to fall for any hype whatsoever, ever.
Years later while doing my first job, when I herd that Java was running on 1 billion devices, I threw up a little in my mouth.
I miss Netscape Navigator.
Netscape and AmiPro.
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