There are many of us who used the Internet back in the 1970s and 1980s. The WWW is relatively new. I actively used Compuserve daily from the late 1970s (on a 300 baud modem). In the 1980s I was using Prodigy (one of their beta users when it first appeared). I don't doubt that many Freepers were ahead of the public at large in being online.
The public at large. Not Freepers or those with experience before 1990.