The browser was a bit of an obvious invention at the time. We were cramming more and more functionality into BBS software, and rendering it into a WYSIWYG+WIMP

The browser was a bit of an obvious invention at the time. We were cramming more and more functionality into BBS software, and rendering it into a WYSIWYG+WIMP client was a natural next step. If I'd managed to get off the couch that week, I'd be the father of "the internet". (My one was a lot more like a pdf document, though.)