[SIGCIS-Members] History of Dark Web?

[Evan Koblentz]

> I got a query from a journalist about the origins of the Dark Web. I 
> don’t really know what was going on before Sealand and Tor in the 
> early 2000s. Anyone working on this?

Not working on it, but if a reporter asked me what came before the Dark 
Web then I'd probably explain about file-sharing sites of the 1990s, 
USENET before that, and BBSs before those.