{"id":12967,"date":"2018-07-13T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:23:13","slug":"wifi-invention","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wifi-invention\/","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi Was Invented By Accident!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian scientist by the name of John O\u2019Sullivan was inspired by Stephen Hawking\u2019s theory of evaporating black holes and their subsequent radio waves.\n</p><p>He set out to find them and prove the theory correct.\n</p><p>Whilst doing so, he found that these weak signals were hard to distinguish from the louder background radio noise of the entire <a title='\"Six' strangest phenomena in the universe href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/universes-strangest-phenomena%5C/%5C%22">universe.\n<h2>What were the signals?\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-200131 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2018%5C/07%5C/wifi-signal.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"What' were the signals width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wifi-signal.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>These signals had traveled such vast distances and were so small and distorted by the gas and dust of space they had passed through.\n</p><p>This meant their waveform had altered from a sharp and easily identifiable spike, to a flattened curve.\n</p><p>It was because of this that O\u2019Sullivan and his researches contemporaries got to work on creating a tool that could identify and filter specific radio waves.\n</p><p>After lots of hard work, O\u2019Sullivan and a colleague were able to create a tool based off a mathematical formula which would help them find these waves, blocking out the extraneous radio signals to identify the useful ones.\n</p><p>However, they were unsuccessful in finding a black hole\u2019s radio waves.\n</p><h2>Fast forward to 1992&hellip;\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-200130 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2018%5C/07%5C/wifi-router.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Fast' forward to width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wifi-router.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>John O\u2019Sullivan was working for the CSIRO and was tasked with finding a way for computers to communicate without wires \u2013 a wireless system of some type.\n</p><p>Remembering his previous research into black holes and the tools he\u2019d created to identify the black hole radio waves wirelessly, O\u2019Sullivan went back to the tool he\u2019d previously made.\n</p><p>Using the mathematical formula of this device he was able to modify and tweak it, using this as a basis for Wi-Fi to search out weak and fuzzy radio signals in the noisiest of environments.\n</p><p>This re-purposed and unintentional invention earned the CSIRO roughly $1 billion in royalties.\n</p><p>O\u2019Sullivan patented it in his native country first in 1992, then later in the U.S. in 1996.\n</p><p>So, thank you to Stephen Hawking for inspiring John O\u2019Sullivan to accidentally give us all Wi-Fi!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>A world without Wi-Fi would be severely different! 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