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Henning Paul DC4HP@SmudgeTheInsultCat FFS, no, for the hundredth time: Hedy didn't make WiFi, she invented FHSS, which isn't used by WiFi, but by Bluetooth.
Extreme Electronics@hennichodernich @SmudgeTheInsultCat no, that was the Danish King it was named after.
MarkAssPandi@hennichodernich @SmudgeTheInsultCat Both use it. Bluetooth uses it more, for performance, but WiFi does use it as well, it's allowed in 2.4GHz band.
Marcus Müller@MarkAssPandi @SmudgeTheInsultCat @hennichodernich no, it really doesn't. Wi-Fi in old standards did use a spread spectrum method, DSSS, but Hedy Lamarr invented frequency spread spectrum, which is really something completely different.
@funkylab @SmudgeTheInsultCat @hennichodernich I might remember wrong but didn't original 802.11 standard allowed both DSSS and FHSS? Just DSSS won in common use
@funkylab @SmudgeTheInsultCat @hennichodernich Yeah I was wrong about it still being used, my bad
But it was part of the first spec, but became obsolite
But yeah in general I was kinda wrong lol my bad
But it was part of the first spec, but became obsolite
But yeah in general I was kinda wrong lol my bad
@MarkAssPandi @SmudgeTheInsultCat @hennichodernich happens! For those who don't want to look this up themselves:
The first IEEE 802.11 standard, IEEE801.11-1997, did indeed have an FHSS mode.
That was, however, *never* "wifi", as far as I can tell, because "Wi-Fi" as a "brand" for a specific group of wireless network technologies was branded in 1999, and was first applied to IEEE802.11b and 802.11a, neither of which have the FHSS mode.
Zonder Zon@hennichodernich @SmudgeTheInsultCat
It's funny because the three guys on the picture didn't really make the companies either, but you have decided to use some of your precious time to comment on the only woman on the picture.
Gary Parker@hennichodernich @SmudgeTheInsultCat glad I’m not the only one that gets annoyed by this. Nothing at all against Hedy Lamar, but you’ve got to give credit where it’s due, and it’s not due here.
Dudula the Dud@SmudgeTheInsultCat Hedy Lamarr FTW!
Tom RitchfordLamarr and Antheil did their work on frequency hopping in 1940. Wifi was invented over 50 years later, in 1991 and does not use frequency hopping.
Also, I just found out that she became interested in these ideas because she was married to an international arms dealer in the 1930s, which somewhat tarnishes her reputation for me.
Zoidberg For President@SmudgeTheInsultCat The point of this being totally missed by some nerds in this thread... :P
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