You can go to reddit right now and find a video of some right wing whacko shooting someone to death on the front page.
That content was available then, sure. It wasn’t blasted right at you though.
I was around ten when I saw these and the first thing I encountered was a video of a man's head exploding on contact with a helicopter blade, and then I scrolled down and saw a prostitute that had been chopped up and placed in a suitcase. The world is a remarkably vile place and the internet is just a reflection of it.
It was basically literally blasted right at you and people trolled by getting them to click on it/expose people to it involuntarily whether you were looking for it or not.
I'd name several of with their 'canonical names' off the top of my head if i didn't want to get banned...
In a main feed on Twitter Instagram or reddit you might see someone getting the pulp beaten out of them.
when I was growing up it wasn't just right-wing whackos glorying violence, it was Bill Gates himself dressed up in a trench coat advocating to 'clean up the neighbourhood'
https://youtu.be/KN0K58EfJSg?t=120
You may be underestimating the weirdness of the internet and the culture around it in the 90s, reddit looks harmless compared to what I saw when I was young when kids on the schoolyard were talking about rotten com