In 1995 Netscape was on the rise having created the first commercially viable Web browser. For the first time regular people could use the Internet. They didn’t know why they wanted to use it, but they could.
That browser combined with the earlier acquiescence of the technocrats from the National Science Foundation who managed the Internet backbone and the technonerds who were it’s primary users to commercial communications made it possible for the Internet to take the path that it has.
