Continuing my exploration of internet vocabulary, the terms employed in different cultures to refer to WiFi are diverse and interesting to document (and discus with Timo). The first one is from Boston airport (but I could have shown some from other countries) and the second from Berlin. I find intriguing the use of a technical term such as “WLAN”, as opposed to the more universal (and more basic) “WiFi”.
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November 11th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Interesting also to see visual evidence of what seem to be the most common notion of the word ‘WiFi’. Something that was (and still is) a name for a certain wireless ‘network’ technology, i.e. interconnections between nodes, is now widely understood merely as a wireless ‘connection’, or more specifically perhaps; ‘wireless access to Internet for laptops’.