I mean, AOL was a pretty big player for adoption of the internet and they had their own version of a walled garden. Before that, there were a lot of people usin

I mean, AOL was a pretty big player for adoption of the internet and they had their own version of a walled garden. Before that, there were a lot of people using lynx on a text terminal in libraries/gopher clients/dialup to a local university. By the time Netscape/Internet Explorer were making it to the scene, they were competing for something already established and growing.