From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 4: Multithreading, useful Java classes, I/O, Networking, and the future Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. byNancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
This applet creates a text area in the window, reads text from a file known by its URL, and displays the text in the text area. It uses the class URL from java.net, to set up a socket to the server, and the class InputStream from java.io.