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 ...

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 ...

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.