The first web browser that integrated text and graphic (Mosaic) was two years old but it was Netscape that really kicked things off with the general public. Ne

The first web browser that integrated text and graphic (Mosaic) was two years old but it was Netscape that really kicked things off with the general public. Netscape was only a few months old at this point. Another essential component was real IP access by the end user. Up to this point your options for home use were sandboxed "on-line" services, telnet/shell accounts, or static SLIP service for power users. It was dynamic PPP and the emergence of dial-up ISP's that made browsers like Netscape usable by the masses. This started to happen on a wide scale around 1994-1995. RFC1661 (PPP) was not formalized until July 1994.