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Wi-Fi
Julian Thomas,
Rowan Wilken, and
Ellie Rennie
polity
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1.1 A mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, provided by the Australian internet network operator NBN during the 2019/20 bushfire season, at an evacuation centre, Bateman’s Bay, New South Wales. Source: NBN Co. Ltd.
1.2 Internet everywhere: public Wi-Fi, Talinn, Estonia. Authors’ image.
1.3 Square at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Source: F1 online digitale Bildagentur GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo.
2.1 Nikola Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated wireless light bulb circa mid-1896. Source: Tesla Universe.
2.2 ALOHA terminal control unit, 1971. From Schwartz and Abramson (2009, p. 22).
2.3 Apple AirPort base station. © Mark Richards. Source: The Computer History Museum.
4.1 ‘Signal Code of Trampdom’ in the Kendrick Gazette (Kendrick, Idaho), 4 June 1909.
4.2 Warchalking symbols. Source: Wikimedia Commons
4.3 ‘Another view of Cantenna II’. Source: Flickr/lungstruck licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
