While the WWW was getting up to speed, the NCSA and the University of Illinois was up to the task of tweaking the Mosaic engine. But the popularity of their browser has outstripped their capacity to support it. It costs money to maintain and improve software. Commerce, a dirty word to some T-shirt and jeans Internet surfers, is the only alternative. It is encouraging that the creators of the most popular WWW browser have gone legit and formed Spyglass Inc. to commercialise Mosaic.
Competition is the answer to improving the breed.
A business environment requires a measure of stability, too. The Web itself is about to get organised properly. But this is still a touch too airey-fairy for some advocates of the commercial Internet. Still roadblocks exist. Whether my acceptable use petition is eventually approved by NSFNet or not, the inability of all commercial users to reach all corners of the Internet is intolerable.