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• jcr 13y ago
  It would be great if your regex was used everywhere. Leave it to Washington to unknowingly take a euphemism for sex chat and use it both for the name of a military branch ("Cyber Command") and for political rhetoric. Their mistake is mildly entertaining, but it really makes them look dumb. I wonder what they'll do with "ASL?"
  • pnathan 13y ago
    Cyber- was a prefix long before AOL. iirc, it was coined in '82 by Gibson and popularized in the cyberpunk genre of literature.
    • jcr 13y ago
      The "cyber-" prefix is actually much older than Gibson. In English, the use came from the term "cybernetic" and that term came from or was based on Greek. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cyber- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cyber- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cybernetics http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cybernetics