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==Java meets the Internet==

In June and July of [[1994]], after a 3 day brainstorming session with John Gage, James Gosling, Bill Joy, Patrick Naughton, Wayne Rosing, and Eric Schmidt, the team re-targeted yet again its efforts, this time to use the technology for the [[Internet]]. They felt that with the advent of the [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] browser, the Internet was on its way to evolving into the same highly interactive vision that they had had for the cable TV network. Patrick Naughton wrote a small web browser, WebRunner, as a prototype. WebRunner would later be renamed [[HotJava]].

It was also in 1994 that Oak was renamed '''Java'''. An IP ([[intellectual property]]) search revealed that Oak had already been trademarked by a video adaptor card manufacturer so the team searched for a new name. The name Java was coined at a local coffee shop frequented by some of the members. It is not clear whether the name is an acronym or not. Most likely, it is not, however some accounts claim that it stands for the names of '''J'''ames Gosling, '''A'''rthur '''V'''an Hoff, and '''A'''ndy Bechtolsheim. Others, that it is an acronym for '''J'''ust '''A'''nother '''V'''ague '''A'''cronym.