Cute comparison, but it's not really fair. The web was quite obviously more useful than Gopher, while WebGL offers no improvements to the web for its most impor

Cute comparison, but it's not really fair. The web was quite obviously more useful than Gopher, while WebGL offers no improvements to the web for its most important tasks of being the standard tool for communication and the interface to most of humanity's services. Somehow the web managed to be "good enough" for those purposes for 20+ years without WebGL. I think a better comparison is to the Java applets of the late 90s and early 2000s: Cool demos, cool games, totally pointless and enormous security vulnerability. But hey, the Runescape devs made a lot of money off of their Java-applet MMO back in the day, and someone will probably do the same soon with WebGL, and that's what the web's all about.