[FYI] WiFi - The wireless Internet has arrived -- and now the sky's the limit.

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/wifirevolution.html

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The Wi-Fi Revolution  

The wireless Internet has arrived -- and now the sky's the limit.  

By Chris Anderson  

We stand at the brink of a transformation. It is a moment that echoes 
the birth of the Internet in the mid-'70s, when the radical pioneers 
of computer networking - machines talking to each other! - hijacked 
the telephone system with their first digital hellos. Or that jaw-
dropper a decade later when the FCC official whose job it was to 
track the growth of communications networks suddenly realized that 
his neat tabulation of local and long-distance had been made moot by 
the unforeseen rise of local-area networks: an unregulated, 
unmonitored, uncontrollable phenomenon of the upstart PC industry 
that would soon shake the telecom world. Or the arrival of the Web 
browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like 
teleportation.  

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