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Happy Wi-Fi day — It will be your last

Dear wireless internet, today we celebrate you and all you do. But never again.

 

Grant Robertson

IRL

Posted on Aug 2, 2011   Updated on Jun 3, 2021, 3:39 am CDT

The Wi-Fi specification — a very nerdy and technical document which describes how computers and routers talk to each other wirelessly — has an unsurprisingly nerdy name given by the IEEE, the exceedingly nerdy group of folks who think up such things: 802.11. On this date, 8/02/11, we celebrate Wi-Fi day! Whether you call it Wi-Fi, 802.11, or wireless Internet, you can agree it’s changed life in the coffee shop forever.

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*First Published: Aug 2, 2011, 7:13 pm CDT