Just in case there is an interesting resource here:

http://cd.textfiles.com/

they are essentially "shareware" CD's of the early '90's, but some are more or less "snapshots" of what was available on the web, check this one as an example:

The Internet Info CDROM

From Walnut Creek (July 1994)

http://cd.textfiles.com/internetinfo

http://cd.textfiles.com/internetinfo/index.txt