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Wi-Fi doesn't actually stand for anything

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Despite what every smug relative at Thanksgiving claims, the term means absolutely nothing. It is a completely made-up trademark chosen because it rhymed with hi-fi and sounded catchy. The tech industry literally paid a branding firm to invent a gibberish word because the actual standard was an unpronounceable string of numbers and letters.

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