The Horrifying Stories of Dark Web
Suraj Singh
Project Engineer Trainee @Wipro | Backend Developer | #Global_Rank_228 Amazon ML Challenge | Researcher | IEEE | Spring Boot
They say we live in a world within worlds and we do have some serious evidence which shows that this saying might actually be true.
Take the Internet, for example.
The internet is a strange place but some part of it is stranger the others. And sometimes it’s more frightening and scary too.
Right now, you have got an access to about 4.5 Billion websites on the Internet. Together, these websites make what is known as “World Wide Web” or www.
But what if I tell you that the “www” is just 5% of the “Real Internet”?
This may sound like a lame joke to you at first glance right? Bear with me, it’s not. What I am telling you is 100% true.
You can’t get access to more than 90 percent of things available on the “real internet”.
The Internet that you have can easily see is known as The Surface Web (5% of the internet) and the one that you don’t is known as The Deep Web.
The Deep Web is 95% of the Internet that you can’t google. You need some special kind of browsers and operating systems in order to get access to these websites.
No one really knows for sure, how big this deep Web is but it’s estimated to be hundreds (or perhaps even thousands) of times bigger than the surface Web.
This includes websites of secret private and government organizations that often require you to have a username and password to get an access to their content.
But that’s not it, not every deep web’s website out there is necessarily out of your reach, on purpose.
It’s just that it’s hard for current search engine technology like Google or DuckDuckGo to find out and make sense of it.