This proposal introduced the ideas of hypertext, the foundation of the world wide web. Berners-Lee had to recirculate his proposal in May 1990, it was not taking off as he had hoped. It was not until November 1990 that he developed an initial program on his NeXT machine. The line-mode browser was released by anonymous FTP to the general public in January 1992. The WWW project was setup to facilitate communication between high energy physicists.
Browsers begin to pop up everywhere, for all the different computer platforms.
In January 1993, a CERN Mac browser is released as alpha. Also now there were around 50 known HTTP servers. February 1993, NCSA released the first alpha version of a browser created by one of their scientist. By October there were now over 200 HTTP servers running. I start browsing around on Linux, a text based browser, over a telnet connection.