Re: "Wi-Fi" origin?

Subject: Re: "Wi-Fi" origin?
From: DaveC <peninsula -at- covad -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:58:52 -0700


OK, so the Webopedia says that the term means "wireless fidelity" (thanks, Julie), which barely owes a tip of the hat to "High Fidelity" of the LP record days.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Wi_Fi.html

I still don't see a traceable etymology. Is it that "Wi-" just sounded like "Hi-" and -- as happens all to frequently -- the "Fi-" was tagged on with just a shrug of the shoulders, nothing more?

Argh. An acronym, to me, requires mental translation, or decoding, before I can keep on reading. "Wi-Fi" puts a pothole in my reading road every time I come across it, and I must patch around it, knowing what it stands for, regardless of it's [lack of] etymological origins.

Dave

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