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although you may think of people using the dark web for buying and selling

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shady wares as a recent phenomenon it actually has its roots all the way back

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to the very genesis of the internet in fact during the early 1970s a group

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of students from stanford used the department of defense designed arpanet

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the predecessor to the internet to sell some marijuana to other students at mit

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it's actually believed that this was the first ever instance of someone buying

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something online way before jeff bezos sold his first book so it turns out that

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the idea of a cyber underground is as old as the internet itself and as the

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world became more interconnected the first data haven started to appear in

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the 1980s down in the caribbean the idea here was to house information in

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countries that had looser laws surrounding privacy kind of like tax

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haven countries with looser laws about how much the government can skim off the

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top of your paycheck but data havens were still an imperfect solution for

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those seeking them out as most countries still had restrictions on common uses

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for these services such as gambling plus housing information and services

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anywhere that was subject to one jurisdiction's laws wasn't enough for

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some uh freedom-loving netizens so a more decentralized solution called

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freenet was launched in the year 2000 a dark network designed to provide

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anonymity over encrypted peer-to-peer connections without relying on a central

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repository of information because it's not connected to the world wide web it

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remains a rather niche service but it's still around if you're curious but this

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doesn't mean that everyone just kind of gave up on housing tons of sensitive

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information and trying to make a buck off it probably the best known example

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of this is havenco also formed in the year 2000 by some libertarian-minded

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folks that wanted to put information out of the reaches of any government the

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plan was to host servers on sea land a self-proclaimed country off the coast of

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the united kingdom that has a colorful history of its own it's actually an old

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air defense platform left over from world war ii that was seized by roy

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bates a pirate radio broadcaster who

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took it by force from other pirate radio broadcasters he

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declared his little patch of concrete in the middle of the ocean as its own

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country and the uk's own courts even ruled at one point that it was outside

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of british territory so the uk government just kind of gave up on

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trying to take it back naturally a rogue state run by

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descendants of a pirate would seem like a good place to host a dark net the plan

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was for a haven code to attach servers to the concrete pillars that held up

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sealant and fill them with nitrogen to discourage interlopers not to mention

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the fact that sealand was already difficult for outsiders to access and

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easy to defend unless someone tried to invade with like actual warships and

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bombers unfortunately for havenco they couldn't end up getting a reliable

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connection and were stuck with a satellite link that wasn't much faster

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than a dial-up modem plus it turned out that no matter what kind of content you

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needed to host you could find some country to do it in meaning that there

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just wasn't much interest in havenco services outside of a few gambling sites

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to make matters worse heavenco and sealand's government got into a spat

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involving copyright infringement as the sealand royal family didn't want to

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anger their close neighbors the uk too much

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so havenco eventually shut down but the dark web has ended up thriving without

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sealand's help in 2002 around the same time that clan decided to buy out

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havenco the tor network first came online you can learn much more about tor

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up here but it's another decentralized network ironically first developed by

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the us government to protect dissidents and is now used for all sorts of

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purposes and bitcoin's launch in 2009 helped the

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dark net grow even more since now there's suit anonymous ways to transact

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shady business and enable the founding of whole marketplaces but if you're

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interested just make sure you don't get into the business of buying and selling

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