How was the dark web born? | NordVPN simplified

Protect your privacy on and off the dark web 🥸 Enjoy peace of mind with NordVPN 💆 Get the world’s fastest VPN: https://content.nordvpn.com/3ZdFRYQ What is the dark web? The dark web is the part of the unindexed internet that requires special software to reach it. Check out this video for a quick explanation of what it is and how it was built. 🔔 Subscribe to get the latest content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZhRxyloC-qzURiOa3vbFQ?sub_confirmation=1 ► RECOMMENDED VIDEOS ► PLAYLIST TITLE ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5pF81orD_2wfSkg10fsL4JRDY--Wepd 5 Unexpected Facts About the Dark Web ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFcDBkEXY0 5 Unexpected Facts About the Dark Web ► https://youtu.be/nTvOSozV5fA Dark web vs. deep web: What is Each and How Do They Work ► https://youtu.be/p1W3iMc113A Contents: 00:00 Intro 00:16 Freenet 00:34 Tor launched 00:44 Tor becomes open source 01:00 Cryptocurrency comes 01:07 Silk road is created 01:19 Ross Ulbricht is arrested When we hear the words dark web, what do we think of? Stolen data? Hackers for hire? Illegal stuff? It wasn’t always like this. So how did we get here? The earliest form of what we now know as the Dark Web was created in 2000 by an Irish student, who wanted to provide a place for netizens to communicate anonymously. U.S. intelligence had already been working on a similar idea since the 90s. Intelligence agencies saw the early iterations of the dark web as a great way to communicate in secret. That’s why they created The Onion Router aka TOR. Yes, Onion, because it has multiple layers of encryption. TOR is the same software anyone can use today to access the dark web. They opened Tor up to the public in 2004, since intelligence officers would be pretty easy to find if they were the only ones on it. Tech enthusiasts, activists, and journalists embraced it immediately. And then, in 2009, cryptocurrency entered the field. The possibility to pay for a good or service without being traced brought a different kind of supply and demand to the dark web. Ross Ulbricht, a failed entrepreneur from Texas, took advantage of the new landscape of the dark web and created its first centralized black market, The Silk Road. Although he was arrested in 2013, the genie was already out of the bottle. Replicas of the market kept popping up and the dark web became primarily associated with black markets and forums for illegal activities. But there are still people, like journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and privacy oriented individuals, who use the dark web for legitimate reasons. Would you use it? *** 📌OUR SOCIAL MEDIA 📱 🔵FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NordVPN/ 🔵INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordvpn/ 🔵TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordvpn 🔵TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NordVPN Check out NordVPN’s German and French channels ⏯️ 🌐 🇫🇷 @NordVPNenfrancais 🇩🇪 @NordVPNaufDeutsch #Darkweb #DarkwebHistory #Darknet