"The whole point of Java wasn't the syntax. It was portability — one program coordinating with every platform it would ever encounter. The machine doesn't matter. The coordination layer does. The JVM is just a formalized coordination contract."
Created Java at Sun Microsystems in 1995, solving the fundamental coordination problem of distributed computing: how does a program written once coordinate correctly with any hardware it runs on? The Java Virtual Machine is not an emulator — it is a universal coordination protocol for software and substrate.