I was looking forward to visiting the Island of Rügen which is Germany's largest island in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. I had been to the island many times and always stay at the Hotel Rügen and the Baltic Sea Apartments (Ostsee Ferienwohnung). I had arrived at the airport and as I holiday home on Baltic Sea looked around I couldn't help but notice just how many people were using mobile phones.

I have a mobile phone but as I was going on holiday I had left mine at home. I certainly didn't want to be bothered with answering the phone or making any phone calls at all. This was my holiday and I was going to relax and forget about everything that caused me any pressure. Surely, that was the whole point of having a holiday, to switch off.

Wireless HotelI arrived at my destination and booked in at the Hotel Rügen where I was staying for the first week of my holiday before transferring to the Baltic Sea Apartments. I suddenly felt someone tap me on the shoulder or so I thought. I turned around to see who it was but it was just somebody using their mobile phone and had accidently bumped into me. I watched as he walked away, still talking on the mobile phone and oblivious to what was happening round about him. It started me thinking about however people used to survive without phones, computers, radios and television, in fact anything to do with wireless networking. We have come a long way from sending pigeons with letters.

Wireless network refers to any type of computer network that is wireless, and is usually associated with a telecommunications network whose interconnections between nodes is implemented without the use of wires. Wireless networks have had a big impact on the world as far back as Word War 11. During the war the use of wireless networks enabled information to be sent overseas or behind enemy lines easily and more reliably. Emergency services such as police utilize wireless networks to communicate important information quickly. Another use for wireless networks is to be quickly connected to the Internet in countries where the telecom infrastructure is poor, as in most developing countries.