Since the fall of the Silk Road, the demand for illicit substances has not disappeared, and that isn’t shocking. The very first transaction on the internet was weed, sold between university students over ARPANET

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]