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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.
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.
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