{"id":31793,"date":"2006-03-23T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/03\/23\/where-technology-names-came-from-wifi-and-firewire\/"},"modified":"2006-03-23T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T10:01:00","slug":"where-technology-names-came-from-wifi-and-firewire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060323-00\/?p=31793","title":{"rendered":"Where technology names came from: WiFi and FireWire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Phil Belanger tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/11\/08\/wifi_isnt_short_for_.html\"> the story behind the name WiFi<\/a> (and it is <strong>not<\/strong> short for &#8220;Wireless Fidelity&#8221;). Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teener.com\/\"> Michael Johas Teener<\/a> tells the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teener.com\/FireWire\/#Anchor-names-47857\"> where the name FireWire came from<\/a>. (Scroll down to &#8220;Why all these names?&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p> [9:30am &#8211; I originally had a link to a NY Times article, but it was the wrong article and I can&#8217;t find the right one, so I&#8217;m just going to link directly to Michael Jonas Teener&#8217;s explanation.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Belanger tells the story behind the name WiFi (and it is not short for &#8220;Wireless Fidelity&#8221;). Meanwhile, Michael Johas Teener tells the story of where the name FireWire came from. (Scroll down to &#8220;Why all these names?&#8221;) [9:30am &#8211; I originally had a link to a NY Times article, but it was the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-31793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Phil Belanger tells the story behind the name WiFi (and it is not short for &#8220;Wireless Fidelity&#8221;). Meanwhile, Michael Johas Teener tells the story of where the name FireWire came from. (Scroll down to &#8220;Why all these names?&#8221;) [9:30am &#8211; I originally had a link to a NY Times article, but it was the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}