I’m happy to introduce the journalist to a couple of the security/crypto pioneers who are advisors to the Internet History Program; these are the folks I’d go to for more detail. 
There’s also the author of The Dark Net, Jamie Bartlett, which is a really nice book though I honestly don’t remember how extensive his early history section was.
Best, 
Marc 

On Apr 9, 2018, at 14:20, Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> wrote:

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?

thanks,
Janet

Dr. Janet Abbate
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Virginia Tech
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