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I'm sorry about that. I might have been the one who originally suggested the name "Java" inspired by the cup of Peets coffee I had in my hand at the time.

To be fair it would have been Kim Polese and Patrick Naughton and James and Arthur Van Hoff who made the final decision on the name from the suggestions thrown out in that meeting. And furthermore Yahoo search was dominant then, maybe with AltaVista, and the idea of polluting the search space hadn't occurred to anyone.

[mushyhammer]

Are you telling me I left a random comment about something that happened 25+ years ago and the relevant person saw it within two hours?

Mind blown :o

Anyway it made sense at the time, it’s just unfortunate. The only redeeming part is that in Indonesian it’s actually spelled Jawa so it doesn’t affect locals too much

[uwagar]

i recall learning java real early in 1997 from a nice book by patrick naughton. i was later shocked that patrick turned out to be a pedophile.