Human Dependency on the Internet and A Brief Discussion on Deep Web

This article discusses the human dependency on the internet and the deep web. It explains how the internet has become a basic necessity and how people have become increasingly dependent on it. It also explains the concept of the deep web, which is any kind of information on the internet that might be inaccessible by any search engine. The article also discusses the uses of the deep web.

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1. Human Dependency on the Internet
Internet technology has been a major technological invention in the recent times. With
the advent of internet technology, it has almost revolutionized the way of communications.
The internet has transformed the society in such a way that it has become as one of the basic
necessities of the recent times. It has also become as one of the most preferred medium of day
to day communications (Colombo, Croce and Grilli 2013).
With the advent of internet technology in the year 1997, it has affected most of the
sectors of communications and work areas. Although the internet technology was a bit crude
during its birth, but in the recent decades, the broadband has become as a communal place
where personal computers and mobile devices are getting connected on a regular basis. As
internet has affected the lives of the people, they have become increasingly dependent on the
internet for their various purposes. In the recent times, the number of globally connected
people are increasing rapidly. The internet has affected the society because it has the
capability to satisfy the business and personal desires of the people.
The society is being highly influenced by educational resources, websites based on
social media, shopping sites, internet based marketing, web applications, researches and
automation of social skills. The advent of internet based technology has brought the world
together into a small place where each people, business organizations and several other
sectors are connected to each other. The internet has provided their users with greater tools of
communication and has thus proved that technology is a significant factor for the
advancement of humans.
As people have become highly dependent on the internet, hence the lack of an internet
connection would greatly affect the lives of the people. In the recent times, internet
technology is widely used for a variety of purposes. Almost all the important systems of the

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world are connected with the resources of the internet. A shutdown of the internet systems
would have a major impact on the financial systems, education sector, the banking systems
and many others. The social media platforms would also be affected highly (Aitken et al.
2014).
Hence, it could be concluded that the shutdown of the internet systems would be
affecting the society on a major basis and it would be hazardous for all the systems that are
connected to the internet.
2. A Brief Discussion on Deep Web
The Deep Web is defined as any kind of information on the internet or data, which
might be inaccessible by any search engine. This includes all kinds of websites, intranets,
online communities, networks and web pages. The Deep Web is also known as hidden web,
Deepnet, Invisible Web or Undernet.
In technical terms, Deep Web could also be defined as a series of interconnected
systems, which have not been indexed by search engines (Zhao et al. 2016). They are directly
accessible to the creators or some individuals who have certain limited privileges. The Deep
Web comprises of data, which is produced dynamically and can be produced with the help of
an application. They can also be produced with the help of non-HTML content and some
data, which would be privately classified and held as trustworthy. It is estimated by internet
researchers that the overall size of the Deep Web is much greater than the original Surface
Web.
A massive portion of the internet cannot be reached by simply searching on the
internet. Search engines comprises of only 10 percent of the entire internet systems. The
Deep Web is such website, which is inaccessible by any search engine and is comprised of
several database related web sites. The entire content of the Deep Web is hidden. They

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include various common uses such as online banking, services that are mostly paid, web mail
that are mainly protected with the help of a paywall, such as online newspapers and
magazines, video on demand and many others. The content of the Deep Web could be located
and accessed by using a direct IP address or URL. This might require a password or other
forms of security access, which pass by the public website page (Hardy and Norgaard 2016).
The things, which can be found in the Deep Web are credit card numbers, weed, fake
passports, prepaid cell phones, money of different currencies, bitcoins and many others.

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