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by purerandomness 1057 days ago
Great breakdown, just adding to it:

> "silk road" (a clandestine marketplace, named after the namesake "dark web" online marketplace...)

The dark web marketplace itself was jokingly named after the original "Silk Road", a "network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.[2] Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles)" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road