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I doubt many people know the correct full forms of LED, LCD, USB, HDMI, Wi-Fi, HTTP, URL, etc. either

• latexr 2y ago
  > the correct full forms of (…) Wi-Fi Wi-Fi isn’t like the others on your list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminolog... > The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand. The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." According to Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the term Wi-Fi was chosen from a list of ten names that Interbrand proposed. (…) > The name Wi-Fi is not short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity' (…) The name Wi-Fi was partly chosen because it sounds similar to Hi-Fi, which consumers take to mean high fidelity or high quality. Interbrand hoped consumers would find the name catchy, and that they would assume this wireless protocol has high fidelity because of its name.