[andylynch]

It was probably a big factor. Gopher was a real competitor initially but the University of Minnesota which owned the IP started trying to charge license fees in Feb ‘93- I suspect CERN’s decision was a response to this as well as MOSAIC’s similar efforts around the same time.

[buttspelunker]

Was there a single university that didn't have NCSA Mosaic installed and available to their X terminals after that?

This still doesn't add up to me.