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The first Wi-Fi router was named “please work.” It didn’t.
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The first Wi-Fi router was named “please work.” It didn’t.
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Wi-Fi is based on IEEE 802.11 standards, first released in 1997, and the Wi-Fi name was coined in 1999. No router was named please work.
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