History of Java

1. James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.
2. At the initial stage it was designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top boxes.
3. Firstly, it was called “Greentalk” by James Gosling, and the file extension was .gt
4. After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green Project.
5. Since Oak was already a registered company, they decided to change their name from Oak to Java.
6. Java was developed by Sun Microsystem (which is now a subsidiary of Oracle) in the year of 1995.

Java Version History