![]() ![]() I work in technology, so I had to find out if this place was real. But I, like most of society, was so very naive. Surely there weren’t actually child porn ads and forums for posting murder requests out in the open. Part of me wanted to believe that it was hyperbole. Because this part of the web is difficult to access, it has become a hub of vile and illegal activity, the Internet’s subconscious. But just out of plain sight, accessible only through certain browsers, is an internet wasteland, an underbelly to the web where old websites go to die. I spent much of my evening reading blogs and forums that explained that the websites that are searchable by search engines such as Google make up just 1% of the content on the Internet. A popular social networking site was abuzz about the “deep web,” this seemingly mythical internet underworld supposedly filled with drug lords, pedophiles, hackers and hit men. Yesterday, some 15 years later, I had a similar experience. I had grown up around water, learning to ski not long after learning to walk, but breathing under water just felt strange, unnatural. As I wiped the chlorine from my eyes the instructor asked, “what happened? Why didn’t you just breathe?” ![]() I looked around the pool, seeing only the legs of the instructor before I lunged upward for air. The mask covering most of my face, I plunged my head below the surface in an effort to learn what it feels like to be able to breathe under water, step one in training for scuba diving certification. The Deep Web is similar to an iceberg in that it’s not visible from the surface.Īt 14 I stood chest-deep in a cold swimming pool with a scuba tank strapped to my back. Zina Deretsky / National Science Foundation ![]()
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