On This Day June 21

The Australian radio-astronomer Dr John O'Sullivan and his team are credited with inventing Wi-Fi during a failed experiment to detect tiny black holes. The first major use of Wi-Fi came when Apple Inc. adopted the wireless network for their iBook series of laptops which was unveiled by Steve Jobs on June 21, 1999. It was the first mainstream computer designed and sold with integrated wireless networking. The Wi-Fi network connectivity was branded at the time by Apple as AirPort.

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