Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web
Source: Alex Segre/ Rex Features
In 1995 James Gosling launched Java
In 1995 a team at Sun MicroSystems, headed by James Gosling, Sun Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, launched Java, a write-once, run anywhere portable programming language for the web. Java has allowed websites to include software, animation, games even adverts, that run when the user visit the site.
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- 13/03/2009
The world wide web celebrates its 20th birthday tomorrow and to wish the web a very happy birthday, we have compiled a picture gallery of some of the web's key events in that time.
