It’s almost as hard for us today to think about a world without WiFi as it is a world without an Internet. There was a time when you were bound to the place at home where the phone jack or possibly broadband connected. In offices across America moving your computer from your desk meant giving up a connection to the outside world. Then we started herding the untamed public use air waves, and connecting things together changed forever.

WiFi’s ubiquity shows its necessity. The number of buildings that don’t have it in America is getting smaller all the time. Unfortunately, WiFi has had its security issues along the way, and we’ve tried to talk about all of them. Get connected with the history of WiFi.