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Subscribe Java Table of Contents Home Technology Computers Java computer programming language Actions Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Article History Table of Contents Java , modern object-oriented computer programming language . Key People: Bill Joy Related Topics: computer programming language See all related content → Java was created at Sun Microsystems, Inc. , where James Gosling led a team of researchers in an effort to create a new language that would allow consumer electronic devices to communicate with each other. Work on the language began in 1991, and before long the team’s focus changed to a new niche , the World Wide Web . Java was first released in 1995, and Java’s ability to provide interactivity and multimedia showed that it was particularly well suited for the Web. Britannica Quiz Computers and Technology Quiz The difference between the way Java and other programmi...