Yep. IE took off not just because of Microsoft's position as the default browser, but because Netscape totally sucked on Windows. I'd switched to IE2 because the Netscape build my ISP offered was horrible and constantly crashed.
You can still see remnants of some of it online, eg this
http://old.macedition.com/cb/nn4crashers/index.html
We were early to the idea of shipping professional apps via the browser, and it was a choppy beginning.