What Does the "Fi" in Wi-Fi Stand For?
Jun 16, 2016 09:42:49 #
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Jun 16, 2016 10:46:52 #
jerryc41 wrote:
As with many other supposed acronyms, you make be surprised at the answer.
http://www.howtogeek.com/259000/what-does-the-fi-in-wi-fi-mean/
http://www.howtogeek.com/259000/what-does-the-fi-in-wi-fi-mean/
I haven't viewed the link, but I've always believed it to be Fidelity, as in Wireless Fidelity.
Hi Fi is High Fidelity. SCI-FI, is Science Fiction.
Anyone agree or not?
Jun 16, 2016 10:50:23 #
1Feathercrest wrote:
Isn't it an abreviation of Wireless fidelity?
Give the man a Cupee doll, that's what I learned years ago.
Jun 16, 2016 11:15:46 #
Jun 16, 2016 11:21:34 #
Why do they call them apartments when they're all stuck together? Why do we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway? Deep questions.
Jun 16, 2016 11:26:05 #
Hanksite wrote:
So much for Wi-Fi, what about TWAIN. Technology Without Any Name. Not sure how the "I" got in there, oh well time for another cup.
Think TWAIN stands for: Thing With An Interesting Name
Jun 16, 2016 11:33:41 #
It's not "Wireless Fidelity" according to the article. What I got was that it doesn't stand for anything. Rather, it was merely a catchy name the team came up with so people could identify with the technology. In other words, it's "much ado about nothing."
Jun 16, 2016 11:35:50 #
1Feathercrest
Loc: NEPA
Thanks, but the "Cupee" Doll is spelled (Kewpie) Doll. (From the traveling carnival days.)
Jun 16, 2016 11:36:43 #
DoninIL
Loc: East Central Illinois
Hanksite wrote:
So much for Wi-Fi, what about TWAIN. Technology Without Any Name. Not sure how the "I" got in there, oh well time for another cup.
Don't know about Wi-Fi, but TWAIN came about back in the 90's (when I was working on computers.) It is not an acronym, but came from Kipling, "never the twain shall meet." Back in that day it was difficult (almost impossible) to get different devices to talk to each other.
Someone came up with the idea that it stood for Technology Without An Important/Interesting Name and that kind went "viral", before there really was such a thing.
Jun 16, 2016 11:44:40 #
Longshadow wrote:
A play on words with Hi-Fi.
Hi-Fi stood for high fidelity, so Wi-Fi would mean wireless fidelity. But that doesn't make sense. Back in the early audio day there were sound recordings that 'clipped' too many 'highs' and 'lows' (wax cylinder days?) and then came better technology. So was born hi-fi. Where the analogy breaks down is whether there ever was a time when radio wave signals ever were clipped. I suppose one could imagine the difference between Morse code and voice, but here I am sinking into the mud.
Jun 16, 2016 11:56:24 #
John_F wrote:
Hi-Fi stood for high fidelity, so Wi-Fi would mean wireless fidelity. But that doesn't make sense. Back in the early audio day there were sound recordings that 'clipped' too many 'highs' and 'lows' (wax cylinder days?) and then came better technology. So was born hi-fi. Where the analogy breaks down is whether there ever was a time when radio wave signals ever were clipped. I suppose one could imagine the difference between Morse code and voice, but here I am sinking into the mud.
And the mud has no bottom!!
Jun 16, 2016 12:06:07 #
My company is WiFi Gator, I can absolutely say that wifi stands for wireless fidelity.
Jun 16, 2016 13:33:43 #
Jun 16, 2016 16:29:28 #
FrankR wrote:
I don't know about wi fi, only know about Semper Fi.
Now you're talkin. Semper Fi brothers and sisters.
Dennis
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