The internet as we see it today is still a fairly recent phenomenon. In 2016, even the most pedestrian, phone book-looking website aspires to be something more than merely an “entry” within the grand ...

In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really?, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though Java ...

“You can’t stop the wind. But you can build windmills”. Dutch Proverb. The use of small programs such as Java applets and Active-X controls in Web pages is ...

As we noted earlier, there’s a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even ...

Java would finally shed its Java Applet API under an OpenJDK proposal created December 4. The JDK Enhancement Proposal notes that the API not only has been deprecated for removal for some time but is ...

That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...