OpenGL timeline OpenGL timeline Developed by SGI, direct mode, fixed function pipeline. 1992 OpenGL 1.0 Successive improvements like multitexturing, cubemaps, VBO. OpenGL 1.X Programmable pipeline, GLSL 2004 OpenGL 2.0 Programmable pipeline, OpenGL ES SL 2007 OpenGL ES 2.0 Direct mode and fixed function dropped 2009 OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL ES 2.0 for the web 2011 WebGL 1.0