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Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)
A tale of the Olden Times, when Network Computers running Java applets were going to take over the world.
Posted by Dylan Beattie on 01 July 2021 • permalink Earlier today, a fun little moment of Twitter serendipity alerted me to an article by Jackson Roberts, a computer science student at the University of Colorado, entitled “ Java is criminally underhyped ”. And for server-side web programming, we had Perl, PHP, Microsoft Active Server Pages, and good old cgi-bin, all of which would plug in alongside your hand-coded HTML website and let you gradually add interactivity without having to rebuild your whole site. Java became the language of choice for calculating insurance premiums and booking railway tickets, and friends, nothing is ever going to be exciting to university undergraduates if people in suits are already using it to write pension management software.
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