Dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets: overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access.
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11 Facts About Dark web
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Darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals.
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Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted nature.
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Dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed by search engines.
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The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged.
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Dark web, known as darknet websites, are accessible only through networks such as Tor that are created specifically for the dark web.
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Type of content that has the most popularity on the dark web is illegal pornography—more specifically, child pornography.
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In May 2021, German police said that they had dismantled one of the world's biggest child pornography networks on the dark web known as Boystown, the website had over 400,000 registered users.
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Terrorist organizations took to the internet as early as the 1990s; however, the birth of the dark web attracted these organizations due to the anonymity, lack of regulation, social interaction, and easy accessibility.
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Dark web became a forum for terrorist propaganda, guiding information, and most importantly, funding.
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The deep and dark web are applications of integral internet features to provide privacy and anonymity.
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