Steve Jobs introduces WiFi to the masses with a hula hoop!

[@SXI96]

i remember being introduced to wifi networks, routers, and all of that, i was blown away at the technology, it seemed like magic, now we just take it for granted, this was such a cool feature for a laptop at the time

[@dannymartial7997]

Now, we have a new frontier, and that’s getting wireless charging to be as convenient as wifi.

[@BoomerangFlash]

Steve Jobs back then: "We're proud to present to you: Wi-Fi!" Steve Jobs several years later: "Will people please turn off their Wi-Fi for the demo???"

[@gibs2b]

lol

[@alainportant6412]

I don't think he said "please"

[@GeoAl09]

hahahah it's funny to see people's reaction because today it's so integrated in our lives that we just take it for granted. Back then it was like magic.

[@Saroku1000]

+GeoAl09 I still remember being impressed to have an internet connection without cables on my nintendo ds back in 2006 . D

[@clariecec9101]

+GeoAl09 Watch the first iPhone introduction. It's funny watching everything we take for granted being shown for the first time.

[@legoappleinc]

Salutations captain obvious

[@DigiFootageFX]

Well, that explains why it's so integrated in our lives today. It's because of the reaction this got back then. If people were like "yawn, who cares" then no one else may have put this in their machines at the time, and we might be years behind the state of advancement we are at today in electronics. This overwhelming reaction was noticed in the industry and immediately replicated by other companies, which led to the wifi revolution we had in the mid 2000's.

[@comfyDev]

I remember seeing the 2nd gen iMac in my school for the first time and being amazed at the wireless internet. My teacher let us listen to the iTunes radio, it was pretty cool

[@crunkycrunker]

I remember being at college and watching this live webcast with the other Mac dudes. A lot of "WOW"s at the time. Great memory.

[@bibasik7]

He attacc He protecc But most of all He connecc

[@adeelplus]

90s was an really exciting era for the computing. Most of the technologies that we use now, were introduced in the 90s

[@codykonior]

The reason everyone is clapping so hard is that this is the first laptop with built in WiFi. Apple rose to the top through understanding what consumers want and need, and they have some of the best technology and innovative ideas. Marketing is only a very small portion of their success. Saying it's all just marketing is delusional.

[@Sliparoulhs]

sorry but...first apple computer.

[@codykonior]

Google and Wikipedia reveal Apple made the first laptop with WiFi. If you disagree then provide some evidence.

[@kevinroscom]

*had. Ever since Jobs died they've been taking ideas from all over. There should have NEVER been an iPad mini or a four inch iPhone. Those are things Android manufacturers do. And if you call the 64 bit CPU or the fingerprint reader innovation, you fell for a gimmick. 1GB of RAM and a 64bit OS is silly (don't make me explain why), and thinkpads have had fingerprint scanners since '95. Used to love apple until 2012.

[@alexnelson8958]

Kevin Roscom I actually disagree with you on a few things that you brought as the fingerprint scanner is NOT gimmicky and is a lot more effective than the scanners on laptops. I will say it was not truly innovative to most people but a select few might think that it was and if they think that, that is fine with me but we can all disagree or agree. the 64 bit procesor i think was good but it was not needed. a few may say before its time but the onllt wat that all those bits will be worth something is if apple includes 4+ gigs of ram and that wont be for a long time. I can agree with you on the ipad mini but i had an iphone 4s and it felt pretty small in the hand and was hard to use but bumping it up to 4 inches was a dumb move by apple as all they did was make it taller. there are some rumors that have been floating around that apple will make a phablet iphone and i think that because "Ever since Jobs died they've been taking ideas from all over." that they might actually do this and this might again turn out to be a big flop

[@atticustay1]

well said

[@MattJohnsonA]

Wow. I remember watching this back in the day. It was the very first time I'd ever heard of 802.11. Of course, I was still stuck using a 56k modem for a few years to come.

[@ATCRyderX]

I cannot wait til this shit comes out. I am so sick & tired of America Online. My Mom picks up the phone on purpose some times I think!

[@TheKnifed]

ATCRyderX© - right? We had to convince mom to downgrade to 5.0 so the parental controls were rendered useless. But she still picks the damn phone up like, I thought it was ringing.

[@JoeMacStevens]

Steve Jobs was a master of showmanship!

[@MikeRomo]

This was a HUGE announcement. I've never forgotten this moment, so glad to see this caught this on video. Thanks for sharing, it takes me back to that day!

[@flatplant]

Some people still can't achieve 11mb/s today. lol

[@chrwl007]

Firstly, it's Mb/s - you've actually just said 11 millibits per second. Secondly, your internal network speed does not equal your Internet connection speed - these are two very different things. All recent consumer devices with built-in Wi-Fi can reach network connection speeds of at least 54 Megabits per second (signal strength permitting).

[@pankourlaut]

It's 2020 baby...and 1Gbps is available commercially. Woohoo. I know some day my comment will be funny.

[@thinkingbricks]

@BrianJayDesign no keynote will ever be the same, he was the best, the world misses him

[@fiction9077]

Absolutely..... He's one of the best

[@weatherep0rt]

Man what a genius all around. One of the greats to ever live. Thank You Steve.

[@MrGeocidal]

What did he do?

[@dbtest117]

Just check the patent register please.

[@jfjoubertquebec]

Huh... it's much more than that. He chose the right technology, showed how it could be used, made theoretical concepts tangible, integrated these selected pieces of tech into seamless devices...

[@nobytes2]

I wonder what Steve would think about the iPhone unibrow lol

[@DigiFootageFX]

Steve didn't invent this stuff. He put out some ideas, but usually it was based on ideas or inventions that other people around him already had, and he chose which ones he felt he could market best. The original Apple was an invention of Steve Wozniak, and Jobbs recognized Woz's talent, and felt he could market his invention to the masses as a "personal computer". He was right, but Jobbs didn't invent anything.

[@matthehat]

It was a pretty huge leap though at the time, because wireless networking at the time used stuff like infra-red transceivers, and it was slow, buggy and required more or less a line of sight connection. I remember getting my first wifi enabled laptop in 2004 and it was absolutely fantastic compared to having a 100m ethernet cable that I used to haul around the house.

[@TroyOi]

Really funny how, watching the video, it takes a moment or two to realize what the audience is getting juiced up about when he picks up the laptop. How quickly times change...

[@brittanyrogers5364]

As someone born in 1996, and with very little memory of not having wifi, I was so confused. Why is this iconic? and then I read the comments and was like oh yeah, no cords

[@Natesha_Laree]

@@brittanyrogers5364 They may not respond to your comment on their 10-year-old statement, but I'm here! 😄It was quite interesting. I was born about a decade before you and even I forget that wifi wasn't always around!

[@GeoAl09]

this is amazing, footage from a person in the audience during one of these presentations!

[@wilsonwijaya.design]

The design was soo coooolll

[@tedmacdonald2221]

Astonishing, and a Jobs masterpiece of product introduction. Who can remember a world without wifi?

[@ashrafkaloor772]

Dear brother Steve....we miss you.... you always solve the problems.... world complaints.....you will be remembered ....

[@drygnfyre]

The iBook was the first consumer notebook to feature Wi-Fi (802.11b). The Wi-Fi standard had existed for quite some time before, but I believe only very high-end computers that weren't targeted at consumers had it.

[@thinkingbricks]

i wasn't really thinking back then, just a fanboy in the packed "standing room only" crowd capturing crappy camcorder video

[@AMPATL]

Watching this over my Airport wireless network. ONE step setup. Thanks Steve.

[@RickyIcecubes]

It seems so trivial now, but back then the idea of having a computer that could stay connected to the Internet without having to be plugged into the wall was mind blowing.

[@Daehawk]

1999 was a great year and a great year for gaming on my PC with friends . The future was bright. I wish I could go back. I might just stay.

[@Millahtime]

They were first to adopt, popularize, and bring the cost down to make it affordable and as ubiquitous as you see it today. They were building it into every Mac since 99-00, I have a Dell from 05 that didn't even have it built-in. It's easy to look at things in 2012 and discredit what others did in 1999

[@BASTEH99]

as an aussie i'd like to say you are welcome for our research and developers from the land down under

[@level1James]

It's called link-aggregation. You can increase the max throughput of the connection if you have hardware that supports it, but your 15mbps dsl speeds are still limited by your internet provider.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

Watching this over WiFi. Unlike other keynote vids on youtube this is like actually being there and reliving the excitement of seeing computers connected to the internet wirelessly for the first time. Without Steve Jobs to get the public excited about wireless networking we would probably still be using cables to access the internet. R.I.P Steve

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

@SuperNostalgia. What the actual fuck does god have to do with any of this? Go preach your fairy tale somewhere else, snowflake!

[@JuanGarro]

It's been a while since apple has had a standing ovation... :-/

[@YourMJK]

Juan Garro Still…

[@SarahKate365]

Hahahaha! This was great! I miss Steve so much! My tangerine iBook G3 clamshell is sitting in a box in my office. I still can't part with it. They're going for $200+ on eBay, so I figure only another couple of years before the value hits the 300's. ;-)

[@drticzon]

This was the introduction of the first consuer wifi product. The first generation iBook had wifi and was intoduced with the apple airport. The crowd went crazy because it was the first time we could all surf the web without any wires in both the mac and windows plateform. This was a big deal in 1999.

[@AndrewBoothOfficial]

It wasn't a standard feature on my 300mhz ibook though the wiring loom does come attached to every model.

[@paycaasi]

i was wondering why they were all cheering when steve took the laptop up. then i realised. at that point of time, wireless wifi...

[@mathieuemi666]

@SuperBoi45 Now watch 1st iMac presentation in 1998. G3/233 MHz, 32MB memory, 4GB Disk. Wow!

[@superapple4ever]

@faralith Me to I was only six. But I kind of remember this coming out.

[@andros1984]

1:07 Priceless response. Thanks Steve!

[@thehouserocker]

I remember the first time I experienced wi-fi and man did it feel like magic! I loved it. I also remember burning my 1st very own CD, also a special feeling of wow, how about your first digital camera that let you store a whopping 24 photos on a compact flash card and eliminating the need for film? sadly todays stuff just doesn't have that impact anymore.

[@thdremily]

I have to disagree on that last part, Apple Carplay feels like magic to me

[@thehouserocker]

@@thdremily Apple CarPlay is the equivalent of taping your iPhone to the dashboard! it's not doing anything new or different

[@thdremily]

@@thehouserocker I have found it to be extremely useful. Yes, it mirrors my phone onto my infotainment, it integrates Siri into my car's built in VR software, I can chose between a number of gps, music and entertainment apps (no games of course, that would be obviously dangerous). With iOS 15 I'll be able to loan my car out by sending a digital key to friends and family. The benefits of Apple Car play are extensive, even if it comes down to mirroring your phone onto your head unit. It's a brilliant concept that I have wanted for years and it is finally here.

[@dickandvern]

I was there, and it was. No one was expecting it. We were all so focused on what the rumored thing would look like.

[@Ko_nonek]

lol 11 mbps in 1999 now I got 1 mbps wtf

[@thomasalias8492]

WTF! how are you living off of 1 mbps? I hope you're exaggerating. I have 980 mbps

[@bess00]

+Thomas Alias i live in italy and i have 50k download 12k upload

[@thomasalias8492]

Robert Gheorgh I have a feeling you're lying... are you sure it's 50k megabits per second?

[@bess00]

+Thomas Alias sometimes i have 1mb But go down to 50/100k

[@thomasalias8492]

Robert Gheorgh I'm still going to assume you're lying... I don't think you realize how fast that is. You would be able to download a 12gb file in only a second. That's a damn lie. maybe 100k kilobits but NOT megabit.

[@NikolaiAllen]

I wasn't really technilogically involved untill the late 2000's... it took me a good 20 seconds to figure out what they were cheering about!

[@reinierwilson6]

hahhaahah.....that was in the presentation of the iPhone :). Was funny.Nice detail that one ;)

[@MrARGraham]

Here I am, watching this in 2012 with a 15 inch Macbook Pro. We've come a very long way.

[@mrinvincible8]

Steve was the King! R.I.P.

[@richgilb]

This really puts things in perspective. It's weird watching people applaud WiFi like it's magic.

[@SparksM3dia]

I love how tech can upgrade so much from before to now.

[@thinkingbricks]

you're welcome, thanks for watching

[@emergencytrip]

literally why am i crying

[@thinkingbricks]

@faralith thanks to youtube, you can relive it again and again

[@NickJDay]

I don't believe so, but the dual band on wireless will use 2 different signals simultaneously like 802.11ac and 802,11n at the same time.

[@OOOwesome]

yes, back to that, it's totally magic!

[@MrTheRsMan]

13 years later I'm watching this on my phone, technology moves fast

[@Jkkooku]

23 years later I'm still watching it on my phone

[@teixsa]

No, he didn't. It was developed throughout years by the IEEE 802.11 standard - the microwave standards and the MAC/PHY layers standards.

[@Takumi_lmx]

We miss you,Steve:)

[@SamOoms]

indeed, but Tim gave a great keynote last week, i was happily surprised :)

[@fredbigapple]

And just like this Apple introduced the “wi-fi” to the world.

[@iezhamM2]

im watching this in 2013 :) happy new year

[@thinkingbricks]

@iTechBuddy awesome... what more can you ask for?

[@B0B_BELCHER]

R.I.P. Steve - you were awesome!

[@fatlittlenick]

that was a damn long applause, the magic of wifi, in 1999!

[@jeremiel91]

he didn't pretend to. He DID though bring it to the masses with great success!

[@vincentbrunet7929]

Wow amazing video !! Thank !!

[@500ncb]

this is the first ever wireless internet consumer laptop man. Imagine you were there at that time.

[@gummozebra]

I think he didn't live for anything, other than for the claps of his audience and admirers. I truly do enjoy Steve's enthusiasm charm and humor and truly captivated worldwide audiences

[@commentmachine1]

Actually, I meant technologies, not power. I do understand that you can buy a PC that is faster and cheaper than a Mac. But I mean new interfaces. For example Thunderbolt, which Acer, Sony, and Lenovo are adopting over the coming years. The same thing happened with USB, and FireWire (albeit FireWire isn't supported by Windows 7)

[@Shockwaver]

The most of the computers now still don't even have a built-in wifi receiver. My desktop pc from 2010 doesn't and my laptop also doesn't have one.

[@Virgofenix]

It was. For everybody who caught the era of wired, going to wireless was like magic.

[@thinkingbricks]

so did i, i'm surprised that no one's hacked a toilet seat out of an old iBook... yet

[@ultrachen]

quite hard to get this feeling nowadays.

[@wirelessdj]

I miss Steve.

[@kissyouin1]

At that time, I was watching with excitement.

[@Andy-Mesa]

@faralith Yes, you did.

[@TechWalker]

R.I.P. Steve Jobs - The magician.

[@MrStreetdirectory]

Way to go apple. You rock!!!

[@eduardusarma]

Steve Jobs! miss you so much!

[@BrianJayDesign]

I miss Steve Jobs. Apple's Keynotes will never be the same. :(

[@grffnchn65]

no they were one of the first to use it i believe.

[@TransVangal]

what a damn mad hatter he was man lmfao

[@swissdelice]

that thing guy standing in back is holding isn't that the '99 Apple iProjector

[@HeWantsMoney]

I miss this guy.

[@Zeas44]

No. The 802.11 Standard was created by Vic Hayes. Those were the standards that made Wi-Fi feasible.

[@wetdog5431]

That hula hoop was radioactive

[@HikikomoriDev]

....Where's the full footage of the entire presentation ?

[@KiwieeiwiK]

11Mb/s In 1999 I still get that now... Yay

[@thinkingbricks]

@themangodess if you check youtube (& other sites), others have downloaded my crappy videos and uploaded them into their youtube accounts even with those 2 watermarks still on them - this video included, sometimes the stolen videos get listed next to mine, i'd much rather not have the watermarks, if you want to see some examples where they've stolen and used my crappy watermarked videos for their own, i'll message you through youtube, since youtube deletes comments w/ links

[@punkfunc]

sure!

[@gourdbox]

Wireless Interlinking of Digital Devices? I thought of that in '85

[@GraezGaming]

Funny how back then 11 MB/Sec was considered fast and now we have 150+MB/Sec

[@katarinacorreiab]

15 anos atrás...

[@ryankoch38]

What if i told you.. that wasn't nearly when wifi was released?

[@drummerkid1993]

Wow, people really went nuts for something I've always taken for standard.

[@IncredibleTurk]

Üşüyoruz reis!

[@filipmac1545]

the audience is chearing to Steve as though he is jesus

[@TayyubIbrahim]

+sushi dream he almost was for them.

[@ijoyner]

+sushi dream No they were cheering the technology. This was a historic moment in establishing WiFi - although it was invented in the building where I work at Macquarie University in Sydney with the CSIRO.

[@reinplat]

+sushi dream Now they are flocking to Elon.

[@luukvisser7173]

Ian Joyner No it is not, WiFi is invented in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Steve Jobs stepped by and said that he would use it if they were capable to manufacture it on a larger scale.

[@hajjdawood]

Sorry hater but Apple was the first to have built in WiFi on their laptops. So yes this was huge at the time (1999)

[@m9j263]

He was brilliant.

[@lxt101]

Steve jobs: ".. and then.." *clapping* "..we thought about.." *clapping* ".. adding.." *clapping* "WHY ARE YOU CLAPPING?! LET ME GET A SENTENCE OUT!"

[@UgariticMot]

Thank you CSIRO for inventing WiFi

[@AMPATL]

Cool video!!! Thanks!

[@MarcAbela]

1:20 All the electronic & internet wires were hidden within his shirt all the way to inside his shirt sleeves and connected from the back of his hand to the computer - very easy trick, I often used that trick younger to listen to music while in class with earphones linked all the way to my ear through my shirt. You're not fooling anyone, Steve Jobs!

[@weskhaled]

4ever the best ,RIP steve jobs

[@MrTapechild123]

I heard him say something like 11Mbps and I look at mine and I'm getting 54Mbps on my old Desktop and 300Mbps on my semi new Laptop and it's soo crazy how much things have changed. and look at Steve he looks soo happy.. rest in piece Steve.