Dr. Naesli.

The Dark Web.

The name itself is a meme.

It's become the boomer boogie man, the back alley of the internet where you go to get

your kidneys harvested and sold off to a billionaires all you can torture buffet.

It's this cheesy part of town.

The no man's land of the digital world, chock full of societies most vile scum.

It's also pretty boring.

See, the Dark Web really isn't that much different than the surface web.

Sure, it has a cooler name and better privacy, but most people use it for the same shit.

Social media, check, shopping, check, pirating movies, duh.

Did you know Facebook exists on the Dark Web?

You do now.

My parents are terrified of the Dark Web.

They speak about it in hushed breaths, sort of like how Ron Weasley talks about Lord Voldemort.

It's as though they think uttering its name too loudly will invoke the wrath of some

serial hacker, just waiting in the wings to delete their bank accounts.

Ridiculous, right?

I told them they were paranoid.

To prove them wrong, I even downloaded the Tor browser and uninstalled Google Chrome.

There's nothing to fear on the Dark Web, I said, so long as you've got a half a brain's

worth of sense in you.

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