And Alan Kay saw this coming from a mile away and said: "What a total stone age BS this is. We already did it better in the PARC". Instead of sending shitty text files to rendering engines to parse all their own way, we should send objects. Every object should have an URL and the users should interact with these objects. And he teamed with David A. Smith and six others and they made it happen... aand it had 2d objects and it had 3d virtual reality where objects from different servers interacted and everybody saw it was cool as hell, but nothing came out of it because the world is path dependent and network effects rule.
http://wiki.c2.com/?OpenCroquet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMk9IGwuRmU
TL;DR: Future was already here, but it could not communicate with the present.