Well!! This could have wondered James gosling...wen he probably thot of how to share the data across the networks...Thou C proved to be the powerful language in developing system side applications..there was the need for sumthing else to develop buisness oriented applicationz..(Buisness applicationz means banking applications, custmer related data information etc) there exactly came the need for sumthing which could work on networks and help data trael over networks...in a nutshell one can say that the concept of internet made people think for sum new technology...and it all happened in early 1990's that the birth of oak took place..ofcourse OAK was later reformed into sumthing called JAVA
