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When you look over the history of communication during the past 110 years

or so, you see that the terms "wireless" and "radio" mean the same thing,

and have been swapped and traded back and forth, depending on which one

seems to sound more cool in any given decade.

But let others follow the fad. Personally, I'll stick with "Hertzian waves".

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