It all started in 1996, twelve years ago, when three students of mathematics at Prague wanted to build a Delphi-like development environment in Java. One of those students is Jaroslav Tulach who is still working at NetBeans (as far as I can tell he's worrying that the development team writes great APIs and that things work ok. He's recently written a book on API Design).
They started a company, and in the spring of 1999 NetBeans DeveloperX2 was released. At that time everybody was mad about Java Beans, so having "Beans" in the name was very important. (In fact during most of the history of NetBeans following the Java Beans specification was most important, and lots of different parts of NetBeans do still follow and use the specification).
I can hardly remember those years. I think there were too little development environments for Java, Symantec's Visual Café being one of them. I remember this IDE because the templates for AWT frames it created had a severe threading issue (that brought me mad!!).
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