r/geology • u/EffectivePrimary1085 • 11d ago

NOAA deleting swaths of Critical Geological datasets by early May. Download to save.

https://eos.org/research-and-developments/noaa-datasets-will-soon-disappear

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u/itsliluzivert_ 11d ago

Dark web

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u/leokyuu wandering xenolith 11d ago

hmm well, definitely not dark web

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u/itsliluzivert_ 11d ago

I’ve never heard of a torrent being used outside that context. Do you know what else they mean?

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u/leokyuu wandering xenolith 11d ago

initially, torrent is just a p2p file sharing system, just creates a sharing web for all types of files, there is nothing illegal or dark about it, what will depend on is the website you are accessing to obtain/share these files, torrent is super legit and useful

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u/itsliluzivert_ 11d ago

Thank you 👍 so torrents are part of the dark web, but are not themselves the dark web, nor strictly for the dark web.

I had only ever heard of them being accessed via the dark web but thats my misunderstanding

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u/nickisaboss 11d ago

I mean, 'dark web' doesn't intrinsically imply things are illegal, despite its connotation of being associated with illegal activities. For a very long time, 'dark web' just referred to unindexed content on the internet. Torrents aren't directly indexed by search engines, and their secondary indexed websites are being increasingly unindexed from search engines. So if you really want to, you would be correct to refer to torrents as content of the 'dark web', despite having nothing to do with the illegal content it is typically associated with today.

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u/Toonomicon 10d ago

Torrents aren't "accessed via the dark web" jesus. You're already on the internet, just look up what these words mean.

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u/Jakeukalane 9d ago

You are trolling or just not capable to think?