real missed opportunity calling them .stl files when they could be 3D-ROMs

Chuck Hull invented the STL file around the same time CDs were just starting to become a thing. It wasn't obvious that CDs were going to be widespread yet.

what's an .STL?

But you can edit STLs.

Somebody with a 3D printer should print out a cube that is its own STL file represented as a voxel space. That'd be neat.

I prefer IRL VRML

And they missed it again with 3MF. How many dimensions does this file have? 3, MF!

eeeyyyy *finger guns*

Do was have Matrix-based memory cubes yet?

Would a DL-DVD technically be a 3D-ROM?

They're literally plotter files with an extra coordinate