How did the word 'Wi-Fi' originate?

 In 1997, an organization called the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) introduced Wi-Fi, which was renamed the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2002. This time around, the Wi-Fi complies with the IEEE 802.11b [2] standard, but they wanted a more interesting name instead of the IEEE 802.11b name.

Phil Belanger, one of the members of the Wi-Fi Alliance, says the reason for the naming is as follows:

The word Wi-Fi has no meaning.

Members of the Wi-Fi Alliance hired Interbrand [3] to provide a name and logo for the seal and marketing of Interportability. "IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence" - They needed a more interesting name than this one. At that time Interbrand gave many names like Prozac "," Compaq "" Oneworld "," Imation, etc. " The word Wi-Fi was chosen from among them. But after choosing this name, some officials objected a little because this name has no meaning. After some deliberation, it was decided that it would have a tagline - "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity". Many people think that the full name of Wi-Fi is Wireless Fidelity, but in fact it is not [4].