Pair of marines turn up with a VPN key in a diplomatic bag.

The standard protocol for friends list and “who’s online” would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

Like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation or you mean the match-making protocol?

jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.

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There’s an “editorial complaints” link at the bottom of BBC news website.

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Agnes Nutter, Good Omens.

Alternatively, “The most powerful person in Discworld is Granny Weatherwax”

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O’Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn’t actually happened yet.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

This computer.

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I have no idea - I saved the picture with the idea of making a JavaScript image-map replica to play with, but haven’t been able to find any documentation or manuals for it yet?

Don’t you need at least AS numbers and BGP (or equivalent multiple independent networks) for it to be an "inter"net?

re #7, I hope they are also saying no ‘secret questions’ to reset the password?

The Game has changed, Son of Flynn!

For anyone who didn’t see it, he did an interview about why and how it sounds like that.