Posted last page - it's interesting, but bullshit.
You missed level 5
Ive seen a few posts from this forum, and it takes the cake as the strangest and most sickening thing I've seen on the internet. The FBI apparently shutting it down a few years ago helps make it feel legit
Most of Tornet is kind of dull to me, at least what you can get to from the Hidden Wiki. The hitmen stuff is basically all trolling, the drug sites tend to be overpriced, the BBS forums hold discussions that aren't too far off from what you can find on the regular internet (in fact any illuminati discussion tends to link to regular ol youtube videos as "sources"), and the one black market site that loaded for me had such incredible items as "jpg of Rainbow Dash" and "Moby Dick in formatted txt file" for a few bitcoins each. Most BBS forums are long dead too, feels like everything linked on HW more or less died around 2010.
The child porn sites probably lives up to the "Dark Sinister Underbelly" image that people like to prop up, but I have zero interest at looking at those so who knows.
Ive seen a few posts from this forum, and it takes the cake as the strangest and most sickening thing I've seen on the internet. The FBI apparently shutting it down a few years ago helps make it feel legit
Most of Tornet is kind of dull to me, at least what you can get to from the Hidden Wiki. The hitmen stuff is basically all trolling, the drug sites tend to be overpriced, the BBS forums hold discussions that aren't too far off from what you can find on the regular internet (in fact any illuminati discussion tends to link to regular ol youtube videos as "sources"), and the one black market site that loaded for me had such incredible items as "jpg of Rainbow Dash" and "Moby Dick in formatted txt file" for a few bitcoins each. Most BBS forums are long dead too, feels like everything linked on HW more or less died around 2010.
The child porn sites probably lives up to the "Dark Sinister Underbelly" image that people like to prop up, but I have zero interest at looking at those so who knows.
Hm, some new things are cropping up. The creators of SR recently tested out a weapons market place. It was removed after a while, but for a month or two you could purchase all sorts of weapons in the US. Right down to ex-MOD Land Rovers with blast protected undersides 'perfect for a getaway vehicle'. The worrying thing is this is just on the surface. The wiki won't take you anywhere too interesting, but you can follow a few trails to get to some places. Mostly you have to ask, though, on forums via PM.
Thats kind of what I was getting at. I imagine most people who get on Tor to see what the whole deal is probably just get on Hidden Wiki, which isn't that interesting. I think for the majority of people who want to jump in, see something crazy for no effort and then jump out its just not worth it.
I've always meant to put more time into it, and try to find IRC channels to talk in but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I do find the idea of tornet, and some of the more general BBS forums pretty interesting. But like I said most of the forums are dead, and the few that are active I'm not too interested in.
Hm, some new things are cropping up. The creators of SR recently tested out a weapons market place. It was removed after a while, but for a month or two you could purchase all sorts of weapons in the US. Right down to ex-MOD Land Rovers with blast protected undersides 'perfect for a getaway vehicle'. The worrying thing is this is just on the surface. The wiki won't take you anywhere too interesting, but you can follow a few trails to get to some places. Mostly you have to ask, though, on forums via PM.
I went to the wiki and found a lot of shit, but didn't really bother to follow the links so I'll just ask... what kind of places? What can you find on them? Drugs/CP/weapons/hitmen kinda stuff? Sounds legit
Lots and lots of CP and some drugs. I've seen some weapons being sold on there but idk how legit that is.
I figured. Some of the links on the wiki I found kinda interesting... books and music stuff (and some political forums) but, again, didn't really bothered to follow the links. Kinda coward-ish of me
Lots and lots of CP
I knew a guy back in the day who fiended on shock shit, pretty much all of the above. He's at work on his phone like, "Hey man, hey man look at this, haha, look at this, c'mon man just look".The Offended page of Encyclopedia Dramatica. Oh, god.
I went to the wiki and found a lot of shit, but didn't really bother to follow the links so I'll just ask... what kind of places? What can you find on them? Drugs/CP/weapons/hitmen kinda stuff? Sounds legit
I knew a guy back in the day who fiended on shock shit, pretty much all of the above. He's at work on his phone like, "Hey man, hey man look at this, haha, look at this, c'mon man just look".
Lots of CP, it seems - obviously never been there, but avoided a lot of it. Some drugs sites. Only a few I can name off the top of my head. Hitmen, I guess - but it's not as straight forward as you'd think. A lot of it is 'trolling' - except it's not, it's just fake posting.
Weapons, not so much, not from my experience anyway. If you go very deep down, you can get to some serious stuff regarding ex-military equipment and tools - never been there myself, however.
Other things yo'll start to uncover are little pockets of communities, focused on certain things - wikileaks style programs, people looking for certain withheld documents, larger scale fraudulent activities... lots of research papers, and banned material too - some worth more attention than others, mind - books on cooking with marijuana aren't exactly riveting to discover.
Then beyond that, it gets difficult to get any further in my experience - down to the point where nothing's indexed anymore, no-one's willing to talk about it or there's no trace of it's existence. You have to go ahead and down right ask people, root around - but it's always worthless, to be honest.
You can get further - it's just how you do it that's the problem. Someone of my knowledge and skill can only get so far. Let's call it the clear dark net!
thanks for the reply. Yours and DUFFMCWALIN's
Orayn, what the hell, man. Haha.
Posted last page - it's interesting, but bullshit.
www.something.com
It's the fact someone is paying a monthly server for who knows how long now to maintain this domain is what makes it so strange for me.
But jesus those are some weird ass links you guys are posting.
This.
I suppose on some level it can be informative and even educational, but some of the stuff out there just blows my mind on why anyone would want to see it.
*opens page, looks like someone tipped a big box of random letters and images on my screen, closes page*
One of the creepiest is this one where this guy found an old picture hidden in his room. It was from the 60s or 70s and showed a boy dressed in womens clothes looking scared. i think it was from a poster on GAF. IIRC, the story that the poster dug up was that a neighbors kid went missing years ago. Its probably still in the Creepy Story thread but i dont have time to search for it right now.
WTF is Assembly Programmers Guild and why do they hide on the fourth level?
FUCK
The FYAD board on Something Awful. It makes absolutely no sense at times.
Oh, and I believe it's only SA members (which I am) who can view that board.
People have been talking about this throughout the thread and no one has produced anything. I would like to read the original.
Great thread btw, interesting stuff.
Yeah
Edit: Don't think it was The Lamonster, searched the creepy thread for his username, he posted a few times but nothing about that story. Unless he deleted it.