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    Hotspots provide wireless internet access through routers connected to an internet service provider. They use Wi-Fi technology and can be found in public places like coffee shops and parks. The idea of public wireless local area networks was first proposed in 1993, with the first commercial venture attempting this in the late 1990s in Texas.

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    Hotspots provide wireless internet access through routers connected to an internet service provider. They use Wi-Fi technology and can be found in public places like coffee shops and parks. The idea of public wireless local area networks was first proposed in 1993, with the first commercial venture attempting this in the late 1990s in Texas.

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    com A hotspot is a site that offers Internet access over a wireless local area
    network (WLAN) through the use of a router connected to a link to an Internet service provider. Hotspots
    typically use Wi-Fi technology.
    Hotspots may be found in coffee shops and various other public establishments in many developed urban
    areas throughout the world.

    History[edit]

    Public park in Brooklyn, NY has free Wi-Fi from a local corporation

    Public access wireless local area networks (LANs) were first proposed by Henrik Sjdin at the
    NetWorld+Interop conference in TheMoscone Center in San Francisco in August 1993.[1] Sjdin did not use the
    term hotspot but referred to publicly accessible wireless LANs.
    The first commercial venture to attempt to create a public local area access network was a firm founded in
    Richardson, Texas known as PLANCOM (Public Local Area Network COMmunications). The founders of that
    venture, Mark Goode, Greg Jackson, and Brett Stewart dissolved the firm in 1998, while Goode and Jackson
    created MobileStar Networks. The firm was one of the first to sign such public access locations as

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