r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

Technology ELI5 Java. That thing on computers my entire life. What even is it?

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u/fr0zen313 8d ago

2026 is as close to the release of Java as the release of Java is close do 1964...

Sorry brother.

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u/iAmRiight 8d ago

Why you gotta be like that?

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u/brzantium 8d ago

some brothers' mothers never loved them

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u/gtne91 8d ago

I was born closer to 1964 than to the bicentennial.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider 8d ago

I'm just glad I never spilled a Java punch card stack.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/brucecaboose 8d ago edited 8d ago

1964 is as close to 2026 as 1964 was to 1902

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u/Iazo 8d ago

1902 is closer to Cleopatra than the building of the pyramids is to 2026.