Stallman and tor
It is said Stallman did not go on the internet from his computer until he started using tor. Is this the reason https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/01/data-browsing-habits-brokers?
Of course he was using the Internet. Stallman receives/sends *many* emails, what requires the Internet. You are actually talking about browsing the Web. Here is how he accesses the Web:
I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).
I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that is enough to prevent my browsing from being connected with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
RMS was on the internet before most of us were even born.
I have used the Internet since it first existed. I never used UUCP, though occasionally I sent emails to addresses that involved transmission via UUCP.
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Anybody interested in RMS's early history at MIT AI Lab should read this (from page 341 on).