Look up "ALOHANet" and the ALOHA protocol from 1971. Pre-dates this by decades.
Then there was SRI's "Packet Radio Van" from the mid 1970s. Was largish, but it was (and still is!) a WiFi router by any other name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van
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