For me at Columbia Gopher was almost completely gone, although the university's public terminals still used it for the intranet. I used pine for email only, preferring trn for netnews. (I would soon switch to Emacs VM for email and slrn for Usenet, both of which I still use today.) I used X Window terminals, but even there most use was the above via xterm. Netscape was horribly unreliable and slow whether via X or on PCs/Macs; the fact that we used it at all regardless shows how immediately and obviously compelling the web was.

Lynx browser. Text only. Them as images were added, you'd see the word image in brackets.