Why is Java Strongly associated with the Internet?

Java  is strongly associated with the Internet because the first application program written in Java was HotJava,a browser to run the applet on Internet .So the Internet users use the Java to create the applet programs and run them locally using a 'Java-enabled browsers' like HotJava..The users can use the 'Java-enabled browsers to download the applet located on the computer system anywhere in the internet ans run it on their computer.

So the Internet users  start setting up the their web sites  containing Java applets that could be used by the other remote internet users .So this ability make the Java programming language popular among the Internet programmers ,so the Java is popularly known as 'Internet Language'.