Yes, I do remember OLE. My colleague and I were looking forward to CORBA which was promising to do similar things in a standardized way cross platform AFAIR. Did not gain traction.
The nice thing about OLE was that it was a relatively clean standard. You could use ActiveX in the browser and had multiple ways of creating them, but all those ways were focused on the programming language, rather than on frameworks.
Nowadays you have Webpack and React and Node and all that stuff where you rarely get to be coding but most of the time you're spending at managing all those tools.
Nowadays you have Webpack and React and Node and all that stuff where you rarely get to be coding but most of the time you're spending at managing all those tools.