Browsers made the Internet usable for the general population. The Internet as we know it would have remained a network for academia, governments and large corporations. Smartphones would not have been developed. Without a reason for everyone's homes to be connected to a high speed network, TV would remain the remit of cable and satellite broadcasting - no streaming services.
I'm not so sure we wouldn't end up in a similar place to where we are, just through scattered applications rather than "the web" with the browser as a hub. Someone would dumb down individual services and we end up with apps.
Browsers made the Internet usable for the general population. The Internet as we know it would have remained a network for academia, governments and large corporations. Smartphones would not have been developed. Without a reason for everyone's homes to be connected to a high speed network, TV would remain the remit of cable and satellite broadcasting - no streaming services.
I'm not so sure we wouldn't end up in a similar place to where we are, just through scattered applications rather than "the web" with the browser as a hub. Someone would dumb down individual services and we end up with apps.