Then some communistic person started giving out a free browser :-)
Right you are: $49.95, but an older version was always available for free d/ld at those two URLs.
We used to get free copies from our local ISP, or a group of us would go in on a multi-diskette (remember the 3.5 floppies before Zip disks and CDs?) hard copy, and pass them around the office like a high school whore.
Ahhhh, the good old days.