I had no concept of the deep net until I ran across bitcoins at work on nightshift one night maybe two and a half years ago and ran into the people that know and use them. Then, mistakenly I thought the deep net was a collection of Tor/ .onion sites.........then recently I watched Revolution OS http://www.revolution-os.com/ on Netflix, and it mentioned that the entire deep net is larger than the clear net most people only know of...???
This is really crazy. I feel like I have been floating in an ignorant cloud my entire internet life, (circa 1996) and that there is a whole other world out there that I could only seem to find on those lonely nights when you are really focused and awake and punch through into another rabbit hole, but......the deep net was really there all along. Why, if it is truly bigger, does 99% of America not know about deep net sites? Would people as a whole be better off to have options, to have hidden in plain sight security, to have more privacy from the data mining of the clear net? Or do most people not even want privacy and choice anymore? And if I can find these things, why have not enough other people found them to make them mainstream?
If I wasn't paranoid enough before, I truly am now. It isn't that I have stumbled on something secret, I just feel have just stumbled further than society intended me to. I feel enlightened and behind the curve at the same time.
I've been reading other foraging blogs, and I recall one in Washington State I was particularly jealous of while reading about the wild asparagus to be had. It turns out I have it here too in Southern California! There has been this annoying vine that sprouts up every year and covers my equally annoying and spiky bushes that came with the house. I was watering about a week ago, and thought "No way!!!" There were asparagus-like shoots popping up out of the ground, morphing into those annoying vines. I felt amazed and incredibly stupid at the same time. Here is a picture of a shoot. They grow bit more spindly and wacky than farmed asparagus.
It turns into this vine. It is less ferny than the intentionally planted ones I have and more spikey.
Don't eat the berries I would assume.
