History of the Dark Web
The internet has changed significantly since the 1990s when it first became widely available. The growth of the so-called Dark Web is one of the most divisive shifts. Though some people may think that the Dark Web is a discovery of the 21st century, its history dates back much further. The idea of an anonymous secure network stretches all the way back to the 1960s. In that decade, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was created. This experimental network was the beginning of the internet and, after a few years, the Dark Web. ARPANET started as a platform for academic use, but it quickly became a valuable tool for the military of the US (Featherly, 2021).
The term Darknet was introduced in the 1970s to designate networks isolated from ARPANET (that period’s internet). In simple words, a Darknet is a set of interconnected networks wherein all network traffic is hidden. Thus, anyone can browse a Darknet, leaving little to no traces...
