In the early 1990s James Gosling, a Sun Microsystems employee,created a programming language called Oak. He named the C basedobjected oriented language after an oak tree that he viewed outsidethe window of his office. When a group of Sun Microsystem employeesvisited a local coffee shop, they suggested the change of Oak’sname to Java to differentiate it from another programming languagewith the same name.Oak facilitated the communication between video game consolesand VCRs. Television set-top boxed for video-on-demand services wasthe intended use for the Oak application language. The World WideWeb evolved as set-top box manufacturers declined the software. Toenter the software market for the World Wide Web, Oak’s developersshifted the focus to the internet and WebRunner, an Oak-enabledbrows