Re: "Wi-Fi" origin?

Subject: Re: "Wi-Fi" origin?
From: "Mark L. Levinson" <mark_levinson -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:24:09 -0700 (PDT)


What's peculiar about the term "Wi-Fi"
IMHO is that by taking only the beginning
of the word "wireless", it winds up naming
the technology after what the technology
does not use.

It's as if someone invented a painless
tattooing device and called it Pain-Tat.



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