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throwawayG9 on March 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Days since last known Java 0-day exploit

Nice pun. For those who don't know, Java took his name from a Café's name or something like that.

solistice on March 9, 2013 [–]

Java tooks it's name from the Java Coffee bean, which the original team slightly overindulged in. I imagine it went like this. "What should we call this?" one of the devs looks around "Java"

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