Hm…I think it’s highly likely that the sort of issues we see on the net today was the same back then… just that less people were online (meaning lots of less diversity than today’s net), people online probably weren’t chronically online as so many people are today (meaning that even if they had a lot of socialization happening online, it was not the majority of the social interactions), and that people often stayed in their niche communities that skewed their experiences about things like harassment and bigotry online.
I also suspect that the histories written about the era of BBS and the early days of the WWW tend to be written by a very narrow group of people, with specific experiences that they hold in a generally positive light. So, the popular histories tend to down play the social/cultural aspects and prioritize technological development (told in a very teleological way). I don’t think there are many social histories of the early web, and what kind of tensions and problems that arose out of those spaces, how actually egalitarian they were, and how women, LGBQT+ people, and POC experienced those spaces when they were presenting as themselves…
I don’t know, but I think it’s an untold story at this point, given how computing history tends to be told. 
