To be fair to Dr Hills, he kind of has a point and it’s hard to imagine the technology would have caught on with such an unintuitive and lame-ass name.
Hills says the name was needed because because the technical specification the newly created wireless networks used (called IEEE 802.11) didn’t exactly roll off the tongue. The word Wi-Fi was instead something wireless engineers coined solely for marketing reasons. Alex Hills, who is partially responsible for the creation of the first Wi-Fi networks in history, that’s simply not the case. Which makes sense, right? However, according to one Dr. It’s commonly asserted that the word Wi-Fi stands for wireless fidelity, much in the same way the word Hi-Fi stands for high fidelity. Wi-Fi was made up because the real word wasn’t catchy enough Since language is an ever-evolving beast, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it sure stands as a testament to the power of human ingenuity that most people don’t realize the only meaning any of the following words have is the meaning we have since ascribed to them. Thanks to years - and even centuries - of frequent use, many of these wholly made-up words have since entered into the popular lexicon and continue to be used in conversation and commercials today.
But actually, there are a bunch of words many of us use every single day that don’t mean a dang thing, and were either pulled out of thin air by a random person many years ago or willed into existence by a committee of ad men in crisp, pristine suits purely to sell a product. If the omniscient tome known colloquially as the Big Ol’ Book of Words for Nerds, and officially as The Dictionary, i s to be believed, every word located within the well-worn pages of this bastion of the English language means something.
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