It's easy enough to believe that people would rave about a more powerful computer or a hot new CD-ROM game. Consumers learned this year that, with enough hype, the world would drool over an operating system with as prosaic a name as Windows 95. But a programming language? No way. Yet that's exactly what is happening with Sun Microsystems' Java, a new computer "language" that promises to bring the Internet to Me with animation and interactivity. Netscape, which makes the leading software to cruise the World Wide Web, has already included Java in its latest version of Navigator 2.0. And online services, software companies and popular Web sites are getting ready to incorporate Java technology.
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