alt Hacker NewsI didn't do any research beyond reading the article, but what exactly is Java about this? The gentleman wearing the ring (presumably the author) is using a sun machine, is that what's Java? I understand the Java hype of the time but were we really just calling everything Java? At least JavaScript was influenced by Java, and the JavaStation could remote into a machine running some Java program
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kleiba • yesterday at 3:17 PM
> The gentleman wearing the ring (presumably the author) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consu...
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jpollock • yesterday at 3:09 PM
Probably the programming env, like SIM toolkit.
In 1998 if you could stick a jvm on it you called it the Java Thing. Java was hot hot hot. Hell, they named javascript after java for no reason at all except some syntactic family resemblance. It was the Java and XML era. Today they'd call it an AI ring or something.