
Tor is a network made up of thousands of volunteer nodes, also called relays. When properly connected to Tor, your web history, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms cannot be traced back to you. Tor is made up of close to 7,000 relays and close to 3,000 bridges at the time of writing, all of which are operated by volunteers.

Tor is the most widely used software in the world for anonymously accessing the internet. Naval Research Laboratory in the mid-1990s as The Onion Routing program, Tor came about as a next-generation implementation of the original project. The cutting edge of internet privacy and anonymity today is Tor, The Onion Router.
