What enabled mainstream web adoption was mainstream computers (Intel 486) and modems (14.4k&#x2F;28.8k) getting fast enough to make something like the web useful. Jobs wasn&#x27;t in a position to speed that up. They got affordable in 1993. (TBL defined the cornerstones of the WWW in 1989.)<p>In 1989 Jobs was still selling (very few) Next computers for an entry price of $10k.