Where it all began
So, now you know the dark web and its bad side. The new question is, why create such a thing at all? I will try to tell you the reason behind why such a thing was needed and who created it. Okay, so as you all know, every activity you do on the internet is traceable, and in most of the cases will be traced. Now, in mid 1990s, as the internet was rapidly growing day by day, many people were concerned about their privacy. Many groups of people, agencies, and governments were worried about the traceability of the internet. The United States Federal government too shared the concern, and decided to act on it. So, the computer experts working for US navy started working on a new technology called Onion routing. Onion routing was designed in such a way that the communication would be anonymous and the origin and end cannot be detected. Tor was successfully created and gave complete anonymity to the user, thus doing its job perfectly....