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Recognize the mother of Wifi (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's your evidence, Richard Easton??!?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It may be dropped, but it was used in the beginning

Wouldn't that not still make her the mother of Wifi?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Hehehe, you can call her the mother of early 802.11 and Bluetooth.

[–] olutukko 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

that's not how it works. edit: others pointed it out already it seems. you would still call the inventor of a first car the father lf cars even though it has nothing to do with modern cars

edit2: but considering that she didn't really invent wifi, just frequency hopping, I would maybe call her grandmother or something

[–] g_the_b 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

She didn't invent frequency hopping, Nicola Tesla did. She invented a system that used a piano roll (from a player piano) to alternate frequencies. Also she shared the patent with another person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Or rather she was part of a team, with her husband and one more, that patented that idea, never really got it to work in real torpedos, and the technology was forgotten until someone referred to it in a later patent. Then her role as background got expanded to take the role of other more influential women, maybe because she had a nicer picture.

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