military, which sought a way to communicate with intelligence assets and Americans stationed abroad without being detected. Like other areas of the Internet, the Deep Web began to grow with help from the U.S. Basically every page, website and internal network not indexed by search engines can be classified as part of the Deep Web. Other parts of the Deep Web include internal networks used by companies and academic institutes. Not a lot of the Deep Web is particularly interesting, as it's mostly massive databases ranging from NASA's to LexisNexis - and those are just the oldest examples of the Deep Web.
#THE HIDDEN BUSINESS OF THE INTERNET CODE#
It’s made up of tens of billions of sites that are hidden within a universe of code - various estimates have put the Deep Web at anywhere from five to 500,000 times the size of the Surface Web.
The Deep Web, simply put, is everything else.
That Internet, used by billions around the world every day, is sometimes known as the Surface Web, or the Clearnet, as coined by Tor and other anonymous online users. When most users log on to the Internet, they visit their bookmarked pages or use Google to search for sites that can provide the information they're looking for. Far beyond searching the Web with Google or chatting with friends on Facebook, there's a dense maze of websites that exist out of view, though for how long that will be true is unclear. The entire expanse of the Internet, going well beyond what you surf every day, is only the tip of a massive iceberg, the size of which is too vast to be known. The entire expanse of the Internet, going well beyond what you use every day, is only the tip of a massive iceberg, the size of which is too vast to be known.
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