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It wouldn’t. I don’t think it would ever have hit mass market appeal like it has now at least.
People would still have computers for office applications and games. Hardware would still get cheaper into the late 90s thanks to AMD nipping at Intel's heels and assorted companies building IBM PC clones. Quake would still demonstrate netplay, and Unreal Tournament would still get a Mac port.
If nothing else, it'd come to computers via smartphones, which existed well before any of them had serious browsers. A global telecom network already existed. It was just voice-centric and mostly analog.