No, no... The internet ITSELF, or more properly my pooter's interfacing with it, NOT the individuals behaving strangely, who will always be with us...
To wit: all this evening, I can get DPC just fine and dandy (this post is posting, for example, but absolutely nothing else will load. I get "Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.(whatever)"... This is for everything, bookmarks and everything I just type in. And the same goes for Firefox. I have turned the firewall off, that didn't change anything. I use AVG 9.0.872, the paid version, FWIW.
I find this distinctly bizarre. Anyone have any ideas?