Nomadism has an interesting and relevant history for todays Digital Nomads. Journeyman date back to medieval times, and are still common in Germany and France.
The medieval form of apprenticeship, know as journeyman (Wandergeselle in German), is an individual who has completed an apprenticeship and is fully educated in a trade or craft, but not yet a master - wikipedia 
Prior to 1980's, nomads had very little (if any) reliance on anything that’s digital. It was back in 1983 when Steve Roberts set out on his computerised recumbent bicycle to cover 14,000 miles around the US. While peddling around the US, Roberts was also maintaining his full-time writing career robnightingale@makeuseof.com .
YOUTUBE 1SvPFPbBYrc Winnebiko II on 1988 CNN Science and Technology Report. The latest addition to the bike was an Oki cellular phone... high tech at the time. The bike is now in the Computer History Museum, and I am doing similar things with a sailboat.
A Bad Reputation
In history, nomads/nomadism have always been regarded as a by-product of the cultural evolution of sedentary farmers and as a permanent threat. They were considered primitive, backward, and incapable of improving their living situation. Only the transition to a settled life and a sedentary economy (sedentism) was considered to be a meaningful alternative - sciencedirect.com