If you can’t remember having to choose between this WWW thingy and Gopher sites, you haven’t been on the internet long enough. CERN and Webcrawler.
I had to google what gopher was...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/
Webcrawler...Excite...Google... Evolution
I remember using Gopher, and I remember my first browser was Navigator.
I also remember spending all night long downloading games from BBS using a 2400 baud modem.