{
  "id": 16706514,
  "title": "Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/elevators-toasters-and-the-birth-of-java",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-27T04:50:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Stack Overflow Blog",
    "slug": "stack-overflow-blog",
    "url": "https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/27/elevators-toasters-and-the-birth-of-java/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}