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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 371

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 371. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Brown beverage from next to central frameworks.

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Cocoa

Brown beverage (the drink cocoa) from next (it originated from NeXTSTEP as Yellow Box) to central frameworks (Foundation Kit, Application Kit and Core Data frameworks).

2: Coffee came from sun to the web in the nineties.

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Java

Coffee (from Java beans) came from sun (it was developed within Sun Microsystems, originally by James Gosling) to the web in the nineties (originally intended for smart appliances, it was retargeted at the Web when first released in 1995).

3: Blue liquid replaced platinum until last year.

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Aqua

Blue (aquamarine) liquid (the most common) replaced platinum (the GUI theme of late Classic Mac OS) until last year (when it was replaced by Liquid Glass).

The common factor

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They are all drinks.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.