I started researching internet self-censorship and inadvertly learned a lot about the early net. Here are some links of you're interested:

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
https://archive.org/details/gretchen-mc-culloch-because-internet-understanding-the-new-rules-of-language-riv

A whole book on the evolution of internet speaks. Touches heavily on net communities before the 2010s due to a lot of the language being tied to the history itself


A Declaration of Independence of the Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

1996 declaration from a very libertarian hopeful. Might be depressing depending on how much you hate the current centralized net


Net.Wars by Wendy M. Grossman
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15280371

A 1997 book about the influx of new users from 1993 onwards and their clash with the community beforehand. Just started it, so that last sentence might not be all that accurate, who knows