Since the beginning of the Internet there has existed another Internet known as the Invisible Web or the Deep Web consisting of billions of web pages that cannot be accessed via the usual browser looking for something new or different online.

Much of what exists on the Deep Web are Internet relay chat channels, file-sharing networks, trading sites and secretive online communities but even darker and more dangerous things can be found beyond the reach of everyday search engines. Some even believe there is living advanced, automated artificial intelligence lurking among the invisible.

Could it be a new thinking life form awaits only a few keystrokes from where you are now? What is A3I really? Careful with those typos...

It requires very little in the way of Internet expertise to create a deep web site and estimates are the Deep Web is even larger than the surface web we all access daily. Some claim that as much as 84% of what is currently online remains invisible to all but a few.

In a book titled The Invisible Web : Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See, Chris Sherman and librarian Gary Price uncover some of the secrets of the Deep Web. Mister Price was awarded the Special Libraries Association's "Innovations in Technology Award" in 2002, and their News Division's "Agnes Henebry Roll of Honor Award" in 2004 for the work he did in writing the book.

Search engines have had little success in penetrating the Invisible Internet and with good cause: Someone somewhere doesn't want everyone everywhere to know what's down there.