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The Java Programming Language was originally named Oak because of an oak tree that stood outside one of the founders' office. It was then renamed to Green, and then renamed to Java because supposedly the creators of the Java Language consumed large amounts of Java coffee.

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James Gosling and the other members of the team who created Java claim that they chose it off of a list of random words.

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Originally the name was suppose to be OAK but that name was already copyrighted.

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'Java' was a word randomly chosen out of a list of possible names. There is no significance behind it.

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