The term cyber Cyrano is a marriage (excuse the pun!) of the prefix cyber meaning ‘relating to computers and the Internet’ and the proper noun Cyrano. The use of Cyrano is a clever reference to Cyrano de Bergerac, a play written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. In Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano is a soldier and poet who falls in love with his cousin, the beautiful Roxane. Convinced, however, that his large, protruding nose will foil any chance of romance, Cyrano resorts to writing letters to her on behalf of one of his cadets, Christian, who is also in love with Roxane but just doesn’t know how to tell her. Roxane falls for the poetic charm of the letters, but believes that they were written by Christian.