Dark Web (Presentation) Blog about someone else Presentation

So I did not think that the internet the common people use is that small compared to the dark web when he show us the chart. He showed us a chart of an ice cube floating on water, and he said that the ice cube was the everyday user using the internet and below the ice cube basically the whole ocean is the dark web. And it goes very deep. And this Dark Web is used basically by criminals. It makes sense when you think of the word Dark Web. On the Dark Web people sell and have services for all kinds of illegal merchandize including buying and selling humans. Buying and selling Guns, Drugs, and even assassination contracts.

And the following presentation was connected to this because it talked about Bit Coins. A form of Currency that’s only available on the internet. And with it only being available on the internet it is also used as transition money for these Dark Web illegal trades.

Also connected to this was The Silk road which is one of the Websites on the Dark web. And the name comes from a trading route in China that treads with the western continents, and like the Silk Road of China they sold Drugs. Well the Chinese used the Silk Road for travel and other merchandise too but it also smuggled in illegal goods.

So the internet does have a dark place, a really dark place.  

A Community

You can find communities just about anywhere you go around the world. Even in past time up to cave man age. And we are made up of small communities when you take in to consider we live in a town, and when someone asks where we live we name that town. But now days communities has a different meaning maybe another meaning other than the Community we are used to before the internet. A community is a group of like-minded people who gather or get together to do whatever activity or plan they have set for them self. It is mostly away to keep in contact, find friends, and do the activities you like to do on a daily basis. And this can range from your Book Club reading to neighborhood watch communities who wants to keep the neighborhood safe.

With the coming of the internet came where people can gather throughout the world instantly. And this spawned many forums, and websites. Right now you can find any kind of community you can think of on the internet. And the internet truly did enable us to find people around the world who has the same interests. With Technology like Skype we can have a face to face conversation with anybody in the world. With websites like Reddit and other Forums we get to see the thoughts and words of people around the world. With the internet came the ability to better communicate and find even more people to join in on a community.          

Convergence

Convergence is when Data Throughput, Access, Computational Speed, and Memory started to get more advanced and started seeing the rate at which they were advancing. We is Data being able to send at a faster rate through the internet. Going from 14.4 speed to what is now in the Gigabits. And the rate at which this happened is very fast within twenty years. We see Access spreading around the world, witch servers being set up all around the world. Storing Gigabits and terabits of information on them. And we see Computational speed growing faster than any other we have been talking about. Moore’s law states that the computational speed will double every two years. And as we know that it has shattered that recorded now. Some predicting that Computational speed will be at a point where it is viable to mimic a human.  Memory being virtualized and stored on the cloud. And Storage of Memory now have come from Kilobytes to megabytes to what is Gigabytes. And storage has now gotten even faster. Everything I talked about happened in the last twenty years and will keep happening in the future and keep picking up speed the future you go.           

Dot Com to Dot Bomb

People saw that the Internet was growing and companies started taking their businesses to the internet world. By the late 1990’s people saw a huge growth in the Internet, and it was the Dot Com growth. Companies with the Dot Com in their name saw a huge growth on their company’s value. So other companies started to join when they saw how big these companies were getting. And then the Dot Com started seeing even more growth that when it initially started. Now people are investing left and right, buying stocks low and gaining huge amount of money. We also start to get fake companies being made and traded for high value. Big companies buying smaller companies. Some companies traded with their stocks. Netscape was one of the many companies that grew immensely. And the stock market crashed losing billions and trillions of dollars. Amazon and Googles values dropped immensely, and companies shutting down. Corporations and companies laying off people, and Majority of them were in the field of IT. People lost a lot of money when this happened.