There’s a very dark, hidden alley in the World Wide Web often visited by drug dealers, fanatics and despots who wish to make entire villages vanish. It’s called the Dark Web — a top secret section of the Internet hidden so well in plain sight that it took the world years to discover it.

As early as 2005, theories surrounding a ‘beyond reach’ Internet were floated around and then appeared Freenet, in 2005. Unveiled by an Irish teenager named Ian Clarke, Freenet was a software download leading to resources such as ‘how to make bombs’ and tonnes of pirated material including movies, music and books - all underground.
The Dark Web remains invisible by escaping search engines. Only after a guided, motivated dive into the Internet can you arrive at the doors of a guy selling radioactive material, the latest assault rifle and substances that haven’t really been approved for consumption, or celebration.
The BBC are even hosting a documentary for February 5 to explain the dangers of the ‘Dark Web’. Supporters of this ‘limited access Internet’ claim it is to protect commentators and cultures from oppressive regimes — elements from the Dark Web even helped bring down Hosni Mubarak it has been claimed.
Police agencies around the world are now hunting down operators but with technology being upgraded everyday, us ‘muggles’ are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate ‘the Internet’s darkest alleys’.