I was doing enterprise stuff. Was a weird time dodging bullshit like j2ee “javabeans” stuff but picking out the signal from the noise.

Mostly did websphere hosted jsp stuff. Moved to that from… check it… J++. It was right in the midst of the MS v Sun lawsuit craziness.

Only did 2 years before a huge MS .NET enterprise pivot back to the dark side where I stayed for 20 years before jumping to embedded and rust blockchain stuff.

It’s an amazing adventure. I’m at the grey beard part. Good times.

Java 25

Holy hell I’ve been out of that world for a hot minute. I got certified in Java 2 as a young lad in 2002 or so.

Have there been versions the whole way up, or did they skip and jump to match the year at some point?

What, you’ve never downloaded a game divided into 5 1.2MB chunks via a 1200 baud dialup modem using XModem on a WWIV BBS and had your mom pickup the phone on the last file?