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Because they did use more than the web. Usenet, e-mail, FTP, etc.

• nineteen999 8y ago
  Yes and as another responder pointed out Gopher as well. Perhaps that's my bias I think that was still mainly the techy crowd. Most of the non-technical people I helped get connected in those days were only interested in how to find the Netscape browser icon. With Eudora email and later Outlook Express as a close second. They certainly didn't really differentiate the Internet from the Web. Perhaps that was just my limited experience here in Australia.
  • u801e 8y ago
    Most people I knew called it being online or on the internet in the mid to late '90s. A lot of people I knew used applications like Free Agent and mIRC and a certain GUI FTP client (which I can't remember the name of).
    • notyourwork 8y ago
      FlashFXP was my goto awhile ago.