A looking back review of the internet in 1994, where the web is pretty much a footnote to email, gopher, etc - it was very text centric "Everything You Needed to Know About the Internet in May 1994" Time Magazine 
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Version 1.0 of the first real graphical browser, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina’s Mosaic, appeared in November 1993. How to Use the Internet mentions it only in passing, describing it as “a multimedia program based on the World Wide Web; it allows you to hear sounds and see pictures in addition to text.” It devotes far more space to Lynx, a text-only browser that you navigated from the keyboard rather than with a mouse. By the time I first tried the Web in October 1994 or thereabouts, Mosaic was a phenomenon and Lynx was already archaic. Still, by the standards of early 1994, when the book was published, the text-centric Web was already a hit.
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Battle for the Soul of the Internet (Time cover story 1994) link
Marc Bina's Modesty is interesting.
Wiki was conceived in 1994 when Ward Cunningham visited NCSA. After seeing where things were going many people who had used his Hypercard application wondered if it could be done on the web. It could, but it involved inverting some core principles of how the web operated through exploiting (abusing?) the forms capability of the web.
In 1994, Kate Bowles read Imagologies by Mark C. Taylor and Esa Saarinen.