how your first heard about dark markets and when you took the dive

I think this'll be a cool topic. When did you first hear about the deep web and how long after did you take the plunge?

Mine was probably around my freshmen year of college during the tail end of the original silkroad. Read an article on arstechnica about bitcoin that piqued my interest. Started talking about it with my roomies and a kid in my dorm who happened to be mining coins plus we all smoked pot. We had ran out of are original stashes that we bought with us. Of course peeps were taxing us freeshies. So we threw in and bought a zip of U.K. Cheese. And then some LSD. It was a beautiful year. September 2013 when I took the jump.


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[7 Points] None:

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[5 Points] Red_Hood27:

I'm probably going to get a lot of shit for this... but I found out about buying from DNM's from the movie "Dope".

Was never interested in selling, just wanted to buy. Before this, I tried to buy L from a plug I found on Instagram. He ended up just taking my money. Because of that, I had a hard time believing that DNMs were legit.


[4 Points] whoiiinvitedthisguy:

There's a dude in my town that used to be a big drug dealer and after meeting him found out he got his drugs from "the dark web"

nobody else tried it because everyone thought it was too hard.

After very little research and work, I never realized how truly fucking easy it is to get drugs off the internet

EDIT: found out about it in like 2015. Made my first order December 2016


[3 Points] alphagaysupport:

Some kid in my highschool was ordering from it and overcharging the fuck out of everyone so I decided to hop on and undercut him. Was good until Silk road got shut down then I got super paranoid and stopped for about a year then came back during Nucleus, lost a ton of money and quit again, then onto Agora who left decently and I've been ordering ever since


[3 Points] Rayn211:

Shit man I was trading drugs on the crack head clubhouse mailing list in the early 2000s


[3 Points] HungriestOfHippos:

2011-2012 I started to get interested in drugs. Spent a lot of time on erowid just reading, until I ran out of the common ones and went, "how the fuck are these people getting else drugs like 2C-B, it doesn't exist on the streets"


[2 Points] BarryProphet:

Surprisingly the gf turned me on to them. It didn't mean anything to me at first before i knew the history of DNM but now when I think that she used to order bud from SR it makes me feel like she kept some secret from me lol.


[2 Points] 90210BitchTits:

Early 2012, byome hipster kid none the less, told me about some shit called "Silk Road". That you needed a special browser called "Tor" to access it. He explained that it was like a big icerburg and that most of the internet his hidden.

Thinking he was full of shit, I decided to do some reseach and WHAT THE FUCK I FOUND IT. Then I thought it was just a big scam... how can people get away with this?!

Month later place an order for a $10 gram of weed to see if the site was legit and the rest is history.

Good ol days when The Netherlands was king.


[2 Points] mydnthrowaway:

I first about it through the wired article on silent road but thought it was all a bit complicated and seemed sketchy.

Awhile back I received a changetip here on Reddit. That got me reading about uses for bitcoin which reminded me about the whole deep Web thing.

First order was probably a year, maybe year and a half ago.


[2 Points] lsdinsane:

Sophomore year in highschool wanted to try some quality acid ordered 3 tabs, took on a school night was still tripping the next day. one of my best trips lol


[2 Points] PsychoRyan:

About 6 years ago I was looking at a Rolling Stone magazine in Walmart. There was a little article about Silk Road starting to get popular, the original Silk Road. The article even explained how tor works and provided the SR address.


[1 Points] Triad_trees:

First heard of when btc was $20 and I was still in early high school but didn't want to get shit shipped to Madukes house. Would check it out off and on until December 2016 I started reading on it heavy and just got my first order 2 weeks ago


[1 Points] rocketmantastic-:

I've been on the Internet since it went public in 1997... so of course I heard about The Silk Road when it first showed up.. or near the time it first opened. In 2012 I'd been following it quite a bit and Mt. Gox made everything very easy. I began my journey and haven't looked back. I've never lost a package, never lost a single cent. I did need a vendor to reship once, I got it, worked out just fine.

I'm glad we've moved in this direction, while the initial barrier is high for noobs (good), once you get in the groove of things, it's a fantastic alternative to street deals/product.


[0 Points] tor_drugs_dnm-:

fun topic idea!

First read an article about the silkroad in 6th grade, I thought it was pretty cool and got tor and looked at guns and rocket launchers and stuff. I showed a few people because I was (and still am) quite a loner and I was just trying to impress people.

Fast forward to a few months ago, a sophomore in high school, still a loner, I decided I want to try some drugs and made friends that smoked and stuff. So I remembered about silkroad and saw that it had been taken down by the fbi.

I read an article about it and saw that AB was mentioned as a marketplace that's active. So I opened a bunch of guides on deepdot, no joke I had at least 200 tabs open or something, and learned pgp, whonix, vpns, etcetera all that good shit.

I made my first purchase on CGMC, it was for 3.5g of sunset sherbet from SFTreats. I smoked in a pre roll in my bathroom alone, and I basically wasted the entire preroll because i stuffed it too tight (doesn't stay lit) and didn't even inhale right. I tried a bunch more times, basically wasting my entire 8th of topshelf which cost me 50$ lol. Not so smart, really shouldnt be getting topshelf your first time, it's worth it if you're experienced but not for a noob.

Anyway I also pulled the trigger on 7g of Jesus OG from discounthqweed and it's pretty nice as well, soon will be ordering a half ounce for my friends (each splitting the cost) and I to smoke (will be the first time I've actually hung out with friends for like 3 years, sad but glad im finally becoming more social because of weed). Also ordering an ounce (deciding from who right now, so many really nice options for under 200/zip that will impress him) for a dealer in my area, not profiting off this zip (he's paying me the price of the zip) but if he likes it I might try to round up enough for a hp or something (dont know how the fuck ill do that, im pretty broke) and maybe supply some dealers.

Weird story I know.

Anyway the terrible thing is that I procrastinate SO FUCKING MUCH. I used to be able to at least get my shit done at like 12 at night but now I'm just on reddit, DNMs, other forums, all day long even at school. I seriously need to do something about this, going from straight As to Bs and Cs. Not sure what I can do tbh, I'm just naturally a procrastinator and having shit to do on the DNMs makes it even worse. Used to be like that with videogames too. anyway I've rambled for too long.