There was once the idea, that the web could work like other objects in programming. You would download an object and then send it messages (message passing conc

There was once the idea, that the web could work like other objects in programming. You would download an object and then send it messages (message passing concept). I think this was imagined to be in some kind of Smalltalk image like environment. I think Alan Kay mentioned the idea in one of his talks, or I have read about it elsewhere related to Smalltalk.