[pnathan]

Cyber- was a prefix long before AOL.

iirc, it was coined in '82 by Gibson and popularized in the cyberpunk genre of literature.

[jcr]

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/cybernetics