Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity, is a technology used around the world to connect to the Internet or any network without wires or cables. It is probably as ubiquitous as meat or potatoes.
There are cities around the world that have Wi-Fi, the cell phones that have built in Wi-Fi, Televisions that have Wi-Fi, etc. When you use Wi-Fi technology, you connect wirelessly to a base station (often called as Wi-Fi Access Point or wireless router) that provides the link to the Internet or other type of network.
The term Wi-Fi is a play upon the decades-old term HiFi that describes the type of output generated by quality musical hardware.
The term Wi-Fi, alternatively spelled as WiFi, Wi-fi, Wifi, WIFI or wifi, was pushed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit trade group that pioneered commercialization of the technology. Wi-Fi is also referred to as 802.11 networking.
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