Preface
The official launch of the Java programming language coincided with huge public interest in the World Wide Web. Home computers were becoming affordable, and large numbers of homes were connected to the Internet, mostly using slow, dial-up lines (remember those?), and Netscape Navigator was by far the most popular web browser. In 1994, a version of this browser was shipped with a plug-in that allowed Java applets to be embedded in HTML web pages. Applets brought motion and dynamic content to what had formerly been a mainly static World Wide Web. So great was the impact that a bouncing-head animation, which was actually a Java applet, was shown on an evening news broadcast in the United Kingdom. It seemed that applets and the Java programming ...
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