A version of Java Edition Classic was released on May 16, 2009, at 16:07 UTC, referred to by Notch as "minecraft alpha".[1] This was the first version of Minecraft released for private testing.[1][2]
Bugs[]
Issues reported about this version were bad mouse movement[3] and a lack of a Y-axis invert.[4]
Trivia[]
The URL for Minecraft was given to users dock and fartron for testing.[5]
↑TigIRC logs: "(12:08:46) dock: the mouse movement is terrible" [...] "(12:09:16) dock: it barely moves, as though it is stuck, and then jerks" [...] "(12:11:55) dock: yeah the mouselook is pretty much unusable on mac"
↑TigIRC logs: "(12:09:31) fartron: i don't have that problem but i need to invert the y axis" [...] "(12:09:39) fartron: or i will constantly walk into things"