Newfag here. Heard some really creepy shit about the deep web recently. Did some research but computers are not my strong suit so most of it made no sense to me. What is the deep web, like in a physical sense? What makes it different from ordinary web browsing? How does one even access something that doesn't appear to exist?
Civilian terms preferred for explanation. I'm not a total incompetent, but I'm no programmer. Any info will halp
You know you can just google it? It's not like r9k and 4chan is some sooper secret internet club that knows all about creepy shit in the internet
>>Newfag here. Heard some really creepy shit about the deep web recently. Did some research but computers are not my strong suit so most of it made no sense to me. What is the deep web, like in a physical sense? What makes it different from ordinary web browsing? How does one even access something that doesn't appear to exist?
>>Civilian terms preferred for explanation. I'm not a total incompetent, but I'm no programmer. Any info will halp
Go away.
>>39447885
It's just a bunch of websites that allow you to do illegal shit or that are "hidden" so you can't access them through normal channels or if you do, it can tip surveillance off. People use things like tor to visit these sites. It's not that big a deal. You can buy guns, drugs, watch child porn. That sort of stuff.
>>39447914
I Wikipedia-ed it. Still very confused. Most of what came up was the same old reddit posts ive seen before
>>39447885
Deep web is just computers that are attached to a network that you can't access via a search engine like Google.
Let's say you store your pictures to google photos. They are stored on, let's say, Google's 10,000 server in some massive room somewhere. You can just access that server directly, you need to go through the public facing server to access your photos. So you access Google photos app and your phone talks to a server that hosts the app and then that public facing server talks to the 10,000 storage server to get your photo.
So "99.999" percent or whatever gay percentage of the "internet" is in the "deep web". Because you only "talk" to one server that then "talks" to thousands behind Google's firewalls those thousands are the "deep web".
The shit like child pornography is found on shit like TOR websites which are just like normal websites but accessed through a different "anonymous" protocol. However, these sites are relatively few in number and I am certain that 99 percent of these are FBI honeypots at this point.
So the vast majority of the "deep web" are just storage servers and the like used by Google or Apple or whoever. It's really not that special. You are better off trying to do illegal shot through person to person interactions, like I said, i am certain that nearly 100 percent of any "dark web" sites are now FBI honeypots.
Your message inbox on a forum is considered deep web for example.