History of JAVA
... They believe that it was though up as they out at a coffee shop and the name JAVA sounded promising. So from then on the language would forever be known as JAVA. ... At one point Sun even tried to negotiate with 3DO to provide a Java-based OS for their setup box, but the negotiations fell through. ... Java and the World Wide Web then met their destiny. Since by nature the WWW required reliability, security, and architecture independence, the internet was fully compatible with Java. When Java was introduced to the market, it marked a new era in the history of the web.