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Formation of Arpanet
ARPANET, also known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was an experimental computer network created in the 1960's that was the forerunner of the Internet and later on, the dark web. https://www.soscanhelp.com/blog/history-of-the-dark-web -
First Illegal online transaction
This can be seen in the facilitation of the first illegal online transaction using ARPANET in the early 1970's.
Stanford students used ARPANET accounts at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to engage in a commercial transaction of marijuana with their counterparts at MIT. https://www.soscanhelp.com/blog/history-of-the-dark-web -
People started to download music illegally
CD's, the music consumption method of choice in the 90's, along with the release of MP3 compression formats, allowed people to easily begin to illegally rip CD's. https://www.soscanhelp.com/blog/history-of-the-dark-web -
Freenet was released
In 2000, Freenet, a free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse, and publish "freesites", was released. https://www.soscanhelp.com/blog/history-of-the-dark-web -
Bitcoin was created
Bitcoin solved the problem that previous versions of cryptocurrency couldn't − it had a special accounting ledger in place that prevented users from copying money. https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#what-is-bitcoin -
Silk Road was shutdown
Best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. As part of the dark web, it was operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring.In October 2013, the FBI shut down the website and arrested Ross Ulbricht under charges of being the site's pseudonymous founder "Dread Pirate Roberts". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace) -
Playpen was shutdown
Playpen was the world's most notorious darknet child pornography, after its creation in August 2014. When it was shut down in February 2015, the site had over 215,000 users and hosted 23,000 sexually explicit images and videos of children as young as toddlers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playpen_(website) -
Peter Scully was arrested
Man imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of underage girls. He is pending trial for other crimes against children, including the production and dissemination of child pornography, torture, and the alleged murder of an 11-year-old girl. He was selling his videos for up to $10,000 on the dark web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully -
Alphabay was shut down
The Justice Department today announced the seizure of the largest criminal marketplace on the Internet, AlphaBay, which operated for over two years on the dark web and was used to sell deadly illegal drugs, stolen and fraudulent identification documents and access devices, counterfeit goods, malware and other computer hacking tools, firearms, and toxic chemicals throughout the world. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down -
SamSara starts to get popularity
SamSara Market is a re-designed modern version of Dream Market. The market have all the functions and features that dream market used to have. It is claimed that Samsara is run by a former dream market staff member although this claim couldn’t be verified by us. https://www.darknetstats.com/samsara-market/