I remember seeing VRML as a kid and I was mindblown. If I recall correctly, it ran in IE 4 with an add-on. I really thought, only a few more weeks and I can build games like Doom myself running in a browser.
Well, with my assessment I was off over a decade lol.
Last week I went to some meetup and met a young guy raving about every website is going to be VR in about two years. I didn’t even know about VRML.