I remember being shown mosaic on the day it went into limited academic beta and (after half an hour or so) saying "It's pretty and all but I can't see how it's ever going to replace gopher"... the person I said it to still won't let me forget that. However, at the time, I had a point. Not always easy to see that with perfect hindsight.
I was the same way when I was shown Mosaic, neat, but what is the point of it?
At the time I was perfectly happy with the following text based applications:
email,newsgroups,MUDs,ftp.