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Ancient Web: Flatland's 3DML Tried to Turn HTML-Style Text Into Walkable Websites

Flatland's 3DML was a late-1990s attempt to build Internet-ready 3D spaces from text files, ASCII-style maps, reusable blocks, media tags, and the Rover browser plug-in.

Ancient Web: Netscape's 1994 Welcome Page Still Explains What a Hyperlink Is

A preserved 1994 Mosaic Communications welcome page shows the browser era before basic Web behavior was assumed knowledge, complete with instructions for following hyperlinks, a guided tour, a handbook, and directions for creating Web services.

Ancient Web: The Mozilla Museum Kept Netscape's Green Dinosaur Alive

Tilman Hausherr's Mozilla Museum preserved the original green Netscape mascot and the strange early history behind a name that later became synonymous with an entirely different open-source browser project.

Ancient Web: The-Pope.com Kept a Field Guide to HTML's Extinct Tags

Buried inside an old independent site is a surprisingly serious history of obsolete HTML, browser-specific tags, and the messy years when the Web had not yet agreed on what HTML should be.