According to IEEE the 802STANDARD is used for LAN Standard.

The IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. The IEEE stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The IEEE 802 standards are resricted to networks carrying variable size packets. The number 802 was simply the next free number the IEEE could assign.

The IEEE was started at February, 1980. So they started to name their standard as 802 such as 802.2, 802.3,802.11 ....

802 - 80 Represents the year when they started

2 - Represents the month

802 represents the last two digits of the year in which the first meeting was held (1980) and the month (February).

802.11