Talk:Internet-related prefixes

"Virtual" a prefix?

The page title is "Internet-related prefixes" and the given list of "prefixes" includes the _word_ "virtual". Obviously, either the article must be moved (to broaden the title to include words such as "virtual"), or the discussion of "virtual" must be removed from the article, but which? Stephan Leeds (talk) 11:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Is "e-" really accurate?

This has always bugged me. Computers can be constructed from non electronic components. Theoretically, they can be optical, or even mechanical or hydraulic (even though that would be impractical). If you used e-mail, e-books etc. on an optical computer network with optical fiber networking, it wouldn't really be electronic, would it? Qeny (talk) 08:25, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

The network mightn't, but your own hardware would still presumably use electronics. And in fact, parts of the network would be electronic - all the devices in between the long stretches of optical fiber. As for hydraulic computing, well, we can add a section for h- when that becomes popular. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.156.9 (talk) 16:27, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Cyber- was not created in science fiction nor the 1960's

The term 'cybernetics' was coined in Norbert Wiener's book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (MIT Press, 1948). Wiener used the term in reference to the control of complex systems in the animal world and in mechanical networks, in particular self-regulating control systems. By 1960, doctors were performing research into surgically or mechanically augmenting humans or animals to operate machinery in space, leading to the coining of the term "cyborg", for "cybernetic organism".

So the origin of the prefix dated to the 1940's and the word cyborg was not created in science fiction either. I have corrected the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.34.219 (talk) 03:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC) Now cyber often be used with space,ie cyberspace,is the term is network? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.239.31.226 (talk) 06:34, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

What about '-Tube' & 'my-'

I suggest adding mentions for '-tube' and 'my-' which have recently become become associated with video-sharing sites and social networks/personal anything. Other than the obvious Youtube and Myspace, there's also godtube, foodtube, freetube,...xtube..., my.yahoo.com, myMaths, MyChurch, and 'myPod', which is a Simpsons satire on iPods. thoughts? bob bobato (talk) 00:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Lowercase "i" article?

Has an article, lowercase i naming convention or something similar ever been attempted? I set out looking for one on wikipedia and all I found was the mention in this article. I suspect something like this would be frowned upon by many, but if done right, I think it could survive deletion attempts and be pretty informative. For instance, what's the history of it? Was the iMac truly the first device to use it? When did the phenomenon peak and which company besides Apple used it the most? What does the i usually stand for besides 'internet' - if anything. If such an article existed, it could even have a list or a companion article list of iProducts and iCompanies with the restriction that they themselves must have articles. I suspect that this is a phenomenon that, had it started now instead of the late 90's it would be accepted, but being older would be considered somehow unacceptable. (Something I've noticed before.)

Hey, even rock dots was initially deleted before it finally stuck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.87.191 (talk) 06:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Sigh...looks as if it was attempted at least twice before being turned into redirects [1],[2]. Those can still be read through the histories but I have no idea if there were any others that truly got deleted. Maybe I'll expand the section to include some of the info from those former articles, but I still feel if done right an article would have been justified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.86.243 (talk) 05:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

"Virtual" in Article on Internet Prefixes?

I suggest that the definition and use of "virtual" in this article varies significantly from the core Wikipedia definition here: Virtual_(computing). I would also suggest that "virtual" is rarely if ever a hyphenated prefix (which, after all, is the subject of this article). I propose that the word virtual be removed comepletely from this article. Comments? 130.86.206.46 (talk) 04:01, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

cyber - kuber

Cyber is NOT derived from "kuber" but from kybernétes = helmsman, pilot, which makes sense because it's about steering or controlling. This makes the "explanations" early in the third paragraph of "Use and Meanings" all wrong too, of course. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.153.32.17 (talk) 08:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Verbatim comment on the phrase "electronic mail" which I removed from the body of the article

This seems to have been forgotten by almost everyone, but there was a period when had to say "electronic mail" because "email" meant "CompuServe's e-mail." USPTO's record of this is under serial number 73432146, but it's not available through a static URI.

I looked quickly for this trademark filing and this is what I found. 64.18.85.198 (talk) 21:52, 2 May 2015 (UTC)