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About
Deep Web,
also known as “Deepnet,” the “Invisible Web,” the “Undernet” or the
“hidden Web,” are parts of the Internet that are not considered part of
the “surface web,” or the portion of the World Wide Web that is indexed
by conventional search engines. Many deep web sites are not indexed
because they use dynamic databases that are devoid of hyperlinks and can
only be found by performing an internal search query.
Origin
According to The New York Times,[1]
computer scientist Mike Bergman is credited with coining the term “deep
web” in a paper titled “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” published
in The Journal of Electronic Publishing[2]
in August of 2001. In the paper, Bergman mentions that Internet
business author Dr. Jill Ellsworth coined the phrase “invisible Web” in
1994 when referring to websites that were not indexed by common search
engines. The paper also estimated that at the time of publication,
information on the deep Web was “400 to 550 times larger than the
commonly defined World Wide Web,” or approximately 7,500 terabytes of
data.
Spread
On May 29th, 2001, librarian Robert Lackie launched the website Those Dark Hiding Places[7]
as a directory for sites that assist in navigating the deep Web. On
January 16th, 2002, the website for Deep Web Technologies was launched,
which provides the proprietary “Explorit” client for deep web searching.
On March 25th, 2003, the tech news blog Campus Technology[8] published an article with links to resources for finding information on the deep Web. On March 9th, 2004, Salon[9]
published an article which argued that deep Web search engines have the
potential to “give the electorate a powerful lens into the public
record.” On June 16th, 2005, Wired[10]
reported that Yahoo’s “Search Subscription” service would allow users
to search some subscription sites in the deep Web. On December 18th,
2006, the Online Education Database[11]published
an “Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web,” providing background
information and tips for navigating deep Web content. On September 25th,
2008, the DeepPeep[4]
search engine was started as a project at the University of Utah, which
aimed to crawl and index every database on the Internet, including the
deep Web. As of January, 2012, the search engine is not available. On
February 22nd, 2009, The New York Times[1] published an article about the challenges facing the Google search engine in crawling deep Web content.
2011 Anti-Child Porn Operation
In October of 2011, the ad-hoc group of Internet users known as Anonymous started Operation Darknet
(also known as #OpDarknet), which launched a series of distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Lolita City, a deep Web child
pornography website that is only accessible via the TOR anonymous web browser.
Related Concepts
TOR
The Onion Router (TOR)
is an anonymous browsing client, which allows its users to browse the
Internet anonymously by separating identification and routing, thus
concealing network activity from surveillance. Some websites on the deep
Web can only be accessed via the TOR client.
Silk Road
The Silk Road is an online black market which can only be accessed via the TOR browsing client. Many sellers on the site specialize in trading illegal drugs for Bitcoins, a peer-to-peer digital currency.
Hidden Wiki
The Hidden Wiki[14] is a wiki database that can only be accessed via the TOR
browsing client and contains articles and links to other deep Web
sites, the Silk Road, assassin markets and child pornography sites.
Bitcoins
A
type of currency often used in deep Web black markets is the Bitcoin, a
peer-to-peer digital currency that regulates itself according to
network software, with no more than 21 million Bitcoins issued in total
by 2140. Bitcoins can be purchased and current exchange rates can be
viewed on the MT Gox[15] Bitcoin exchange.
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