199 1 year, while working in Sun company, gosling and a group of technicians created a project called Oak, which aims to develop a programming language running on virtual machines and allow programs to run on multiple platforms such as TV set-top boxes. Later, this work evolved into Java. With the popularity of Internet, especially the appearance of Netscape Web browser, Java[ 1] has become a popular development language in the world. So it is called the father of Java.