If you had to put a year on it, when would you say the web became meaningfully "interactive"?
Meaning when did we go from static pages of longform text to dynamic components streaming live data and flying 3D interactive articles?
Articles / refs with historical detail welcome 🙏
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don’t know if you’re including Flash runtimes but that ecosystem was streaming live data and flying 3d bits around well before JS was
DHTML was the first wave of interactivity as far as stock js/html goes
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gabocorp in 1997 was my first “holy shit wtf?!?”
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Certainly including Flash. Trying to wrap my head around when we went from "this is a neat piece of digital paper" to "imma build an interactive experience to fly through the solar system". Seems like a 20 year slow burn.
Web design museum is a good resource 👍