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Before Java 1.0 officially launched (on January 23, 1996), there was the Alpha phase. The versioning system was simple: "Java Alpha 1.0." The date code (likely February 16, 1995, or possibly early 1996 depending on regional date formatting) represents one of the very first pre-release builds ever distributed to a small group of "Early Access" testers. Java Alpha 1.0 16-02 Download