The Hidden Story Behind When Was WiFi Invented and How It Changed Everything
The first time wireless data transmission escaped lab walls, it wasn’t called WiFi. In 1991, a Stanford researcher named Norman Abramson demonstrated a prototype that could send packets between laptops at 1-2 Mbps—a speed that would feel glacial today, but was revolutionary then. The technology, later standardized as 802.11, was the embryonic form of what … Read more
