This is the closest thing I can find to what I wanted to do. Information about it on the web is scarce - there's no mention of it on Yahoo's official site or even in Wikipedia. The image above is from a student paper titled "Mapping the Unmappable" published here.
The internet is represented by a 3D city which can be explored by the viewer. Each building represents a category (finance, sports, education etc) and contains several objects which represent individual websites.
Why Did it Disappear?
Yahoo 3D was launched in 1996, but today there is very little trace of it on the web. So why did it fail? One possible reason is that it seems to have been designed to deal with a small, finite number of websites - when in reality there are over 100,000,000 websites in the world. Another reason might be the same reason Google Video struggled to compete with Youtube - the lack of social networking features.
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