History of Java
Java was developed by James Gosling in the 1990s at Sun Microsystem(Now acquired by Oracle Corporation). He is also known as the father of Java. The first name of Java was Greentalk(with file extension .gt), then Oak, and then Java in 1995. The name Oak was taken from the Oak tree, Which is the symbol of strength and is the nation of many countries such as the USA, France, Germany etc.
Java versions and release dates:-
Version Release date
JDK Alpha & Beta 1995
JDK 1.0 Jan 1996
JDK 1.1 Feb 1997
JDK 1.2 Dec 1998
JDK 1.3 May 2000
JDK 1.4 Feb 2002
Java SE 5 Sep 2004
Java SE 6 Dec 2006
Java SE 7 July 2011
Java SE 8 March 2014
Java SE 9 Sep 2017
Java SE 10 March 2018
Java SE 11 Sep 2018
Java SE 12 March 2019
Java SE 13 Sep 2019
Java SE 14 March 2020
Java SE 15 Sep 2020
Java SE 16 March 2021
Java SE 17 Sep 2021
Java SE 18 March 2022
Java SE 19 Sep 2022
Java SE 20 March 2023
Java SE 21 Expected in Sep 2023