| released = 1.0March 24, 1997 <small>''v1.0''</small> <ref name="nwfusion">{{cite web|last=Rakitin|first=Jason|title=Review: Alternative Web browsers|url=http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html|publisher=Network World Fusion|accessdate=16 August 2010|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20011005005015/www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html|archivedate=5 October 2001|date=27 October 1997}}</ref> <ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sun+Microsystems%2c+Inc.+to+Ship+HotJava+Browser+1.0%3b+New+Customizable...-a019198262|title=Sun Microsystems, Inc. to Ship HotJava Browser 1.0; New Customizable Browser Enables Custom Web Interface|publisher=''Business Wire''|date=March 11, 1997|accessdate=June 10, 2014}}</ref>
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==Origins==
In 1994, a team of Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the internet browser [[Mosaic browser|Mosaic]]. It was based on the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language. The name WebRunner‘WebRunner’ was a tribute to the ''[[Blade Runner]]'' movie.<ref>{{cite web|last=Byous|first=Jon|title=Java Technology: An Early History|url=http://gcc.upb.de/www/WI/WI2/wi2_lit.nsf/7544f3043ee53927c12573e70058bbb6/abf8d70f07c12eb3c1256de900638899/$FILE/Java%20Technology%20-%20An%20early%20history.pdf|publisher=[[Sun Microsystems]]|accessdate=24 November 2010|year=1998}}</ref>
WebRunner's first public demonstration was given by [[John Gage]] and [[James Gosling]] at the [[Technology Entertainment Design]] Conference in [[Monterey, California]] in 1995. Renamed HotJava, it was officially announced in May the same year at the SunWorld conference.
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HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time.
More critically, HotJava suffered from the inherent performance limitations of [[Java virtualVirtual machineMachine]] implementations of the day (both in terms of processing speed and in memory consumption) and washence consequentlywas quiteconsiderably slowsluggish.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=sX60mAi0eQUC&pg=PA378&lpg=PA378&dq=hotjava+browser+performance+slow&source=bl&ots=UkKp0KW6bm&sig=nY1_4NF3qt9UO1A2EizzpEqlZ-U&hl=en&ei=m0dWStLaGOSrjAeumrjfAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9 ''Web performance tuning'', Patrick Killelea, Edition 2, O'Reilly Books, 2002]</ref>
