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