ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the background of the internet and the deep web. It examines critical events that led to the establishment of the internet from a global network that was known as ARPANET. Dark nets do not normally answer to pings or inquiries from search engines, thus, they remain hidden. The hallmark of man’s revolutions in communication is the internet. It came in to fill a void in the interconnection of other inventions such as telegraphs, telephones, radios, and computers. The biggest data breach to date is the one that happened at Yahoo. It is estimated that the records of close to 3 billion users were stolen by hackers in 2014. Google hacking is a technique that is intended at exposing sensitive data by using special operators in search queries that can retrieve sensitive information from web servers. Dark nets were offering data havens, gambling operations, and pornography.
