Tcl Applets (1996-2006)
Sun Microsystems / Scriptics / Tcl Core Team

 

 

"3display" by Gerard Sookahet
 
Developed by a small team and launched in 1988, Tool Command Language (Tcl, pronounced "tickle") is an open source dynamic programming language. In 1994, Sun Microsystems brought the team in to develop the tech further. One of the outcomes of this venture was a 1996 plugin that could run Tcl applets ("Tclets") embedded in pages. In late 1997, Tcl's development was spun off to an independent company called Scriptics, and spun off once again into Tcl Core Team in 2000. While development of the language remains lively to this day, work on the plugin has slowed to a crawl despite not being officially discontinued. The latest version, 3.1.0, was released in 2006.