Look at the frenetic discourse around Eolas being granted a patent for "weblets". It's kind of amazing that a bespoke web "grid computer" almost became the standard for 3D viz in the browser. Instead I recall just a lot of fragmentation in the early 3D web: Sun people just used Java applets, MS folks rolled out ActiveX controls, etc.
Eolas MultiVIS™: A Web-based interactive remote visualization
environment and navigable volume imagemap system
Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed HTML in late 1991 but did not formally release it. HTML 2.0 was released in 1995. HTML 4.01, a significant version, was released in late 1999.
He apparently had been working on this since all the way in 1980 and had a system for his own personal use. Like a lot of things, it wasn’t a stroke of genius in few seconds but rather decades long thinking and mulling over how the linked documents should/can look like.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/
Look at the frenetic discourse around Eolas being granted a patent for "weblets". It's kind of amazing that a bespoke web "grid computer" almost became the standard for 3D viz in the browser. Instead I recall just a lot of fragmentation in the early 3D web: Sun people just used Java applets, MS folks rolled out ActiveX controls, etc.
Eolas MultiVIS™: A Web-based interactive remote visualization environment and navigable volume imagemap system
http://www.eolas.com/img/20-1-spie-aipr-10-99-multivis.pdf