Why do people use the letter "e" when referring to something about the Internet?

[553]

[Vir]

e as in electronic e.g electronic mail (e-mail)

[Jack]

what are you talking about?

like "E" mail? It means electronic mail.

[654]

That's becoming less common, however I believe it stems from Internet Explorer's icon "e", which was the first major browser.

That in itself may have stemmed from "e" being short for "electronic", as in email = electronic mail.

[Rootkit]

'e' generally stands for Internet/Web. Like you have many words e-mail,e-governance, e-shopping,e-education, etc. All these indicates Internet form of the actual concept...