Early 2000s to today: Illegal use of Tor
The dark segment of the Internet, the darknet, began to grow — and the Tor browser only contributed to this,…
2013-2015 — the end of the Silk Road
The American authorities were able to track Ulbricht by his nickname. The criminal was arrested in San Francisco, and the…
2015-2021 — new darknet marketplaces
After these events, the number of black marketplaces in the darknet has only increased: 2015 — Evolution (various illegal products),…
The 1980s — the emergence of information “data shelters”
With the birth of the modern network and the standardization of a set of Internet protocols, it became more difficult…
However, the darknet can also serve useful purposes.
Ordinary people mostly associate the shadow Internet with illegal content and criminal activity, which is generally true. For example, journalists…