| VRML was conceived in the spring of 1994 at the first annual World Wide Web Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| Tim Berners-Lee and Dave Raggett organized a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session to discuss Virtual Reality interfaces to the World Wide Web. |
| Several BOF attendees described projects already underway to build three dimensional graphical visualization tools which interoperate with the Web. |
| Attendees agreed on the need for these tools to have a common language for specifying 3D scene description and WWW hyperlinks -- an analog of HTML for virtual reality. |
| The term Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) was coined, and the group resolved to begin specification work after the conference. |
| The word 'Markup' was later changed to 'Modeling' to reflect the graphical nature of VRML. |