Neuromancer with triggering a "cyber- prefix flood" in the 1980s. McFedries observes that a backlash against the use of e- and cyber- can be traced to the late 1990s, quoting Hale and Scanlon requesting writers in 1999 to "resist the urge to use this vowel-as-cliché" when it comes to e- and calling cyber- "terminally overused". A comparable usage from outside the English language is the Japanese prefix , meaning electricity, which was used in Meiji-era Japan to denote products exhibiting a Western sensibility. References Further reading — Schaffer discusses e-, i- and several others. External links Internet-related prefixes – TheFreeDictionary.com Internet-related prefixes – CyberOaks.co Prefixes