Steampunk: Like a stray cat in your Intertubes

There is a discussion on the Steampunk Forum currently contemplating, "What if there had been an Victorian Internet, and what if it were actually made up of tubes, pneumatic tubes?" This of course ultimately led to the discussion of the horrors of InterTube spam, and how other Internet phenomena might manifest in such a Steampunk system. The erudite Marcus Rowland even created a version of the "