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In 1998 if you could stick a jvm on it you called it the Java Thing. Java was hot hot hot. Hell, they named javascript after java for no reason at all except some syntactic family resemblance. It was the Java and XML era. Today they'd call it an AI ring or something.

> The gentleman wearing the ring (presumably the author) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consu...

Oh man, I remember religiously reading his website back in 1999.

OT, but I just noted that https://www.preppylion.com/about-us/ looks strange in my webbrowser because the text has absolutely zero left/right margins...

Yeah, I’ve gotta fix a bunch of CSS there, but I’m focused on the book at the moment.

The ring runs a JVM in hardware.

On a 8051 microcontroller afaik with some crypto acceleration. Stuff like Jazelle came couple of years later.

Probably the programming env, like SIM toolkit.