Huh, I was very lucky to have used the web before the launch of Mosaic, using the Terminal based Lynx bowser. I worked at the UK Forestry Commission research agency and we had Telnet access to a computer at Edinburgh University.
I remember when Mosaic was announced, so it must have been between the launch of Lynx in 1992 and Mosaic in early 1993. That's a pretty narrow window.
A year or two later I demoed Mosaic to some of the research staff, showing off some web sites with some basic Biology information and illustrations. It was a real struggle to get them to see the potential, understandably I suppose. I wonder if any of them remember that demo today.
To put another way, more time has passed since the 1977 introduction of the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET than the time between the end of World War II in 1945 and those computers' debuts.
I remember when Mosaic was announced, so it must have been between the launch of Lynx in 1992 and Mosaic in early 1993. That's a pretty narrow window.
A year or two later I demoed Mosaic to some of the research staff, showing off some web sites with some basic Biology information and illustrations. It was a real struggle to get them to see the potential, understandably I suppose. I wonder if any of them remember that demo today.