Everyone uses it. Almost no one can draw it. Send a packet and watch it fall through five real layers — from wires in the ocean to the pages on your screen. Pick who's reading; the whole page follows.
idle — press “send a packet” to trace a message from your device to a server.
The scariest-sounding part of the internet is mostly misunderstood. Here's the honest version — what each layer is, and the myths worth killing. No access guide, by design: this is a map, not a door.
Anything Google can find. The library you can walk into. ~ a sliver of what's out there.
Your bank balance, email, private docs, gated databases. Boring, enormous, and totally routine. the vast majority.
Reachable only through tools like Tor. Used by journalists and people under surveillance — and by illicit markets. tiny.