Happy 25th Anniversary!!!
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91189769/who-invented-wi-fi
Wi-Fi’s official launch occurred on September 15, 1999, when a coalition of industry players committed to ensuring that wireless connectivity would work seamlessly across devices from different manufacturers. The name “Wi-Fi” may have seemed quirky at first, but it was certainly more marketable than “IEEE 802.11b,” the technical standard underpinning the technology.
While it’s tempting to think Wi-Fi was born from a singular genius’s eureka moment, the truth is far more interesting. Imagine the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—the world’s largest technical professional organization, with more than 325,000 members—embarking on a yearslong political and technical process to develop a wireless networking standard. Vic Hayes, often called the “father of Wi-Fi,” led an international committee that included hundreds of engineers from more than 100 competing companies. The resulting standard took nearly a decade and the work of many hands.
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