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jstimpfletoday at 11:48 AM1 replyview on HN

> Fun fact: wifi is not an acronym for anything, the inventors simply liked how it sounded.

Most certainly it's a reference to "Sci-Fi" or "Hi-Fi".


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CaninoDevtoday at 2:22 PM

I always thought Wi-Fi meant wireless fidelity? (Or wireless fiction since in the end, everything is wired).