Simple Beep

e70 – AirPort

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Apple has officially discontinued its AirPort line of wireless products after nearly 20 years(!) We examine how our Wi-Fi has evolved from the original iBook until today.

Follow Up
  • hire Ed!
  • Douglas Adams’s DragThing feature request
    • e42
    • Frontier
    • coverage on Daring Fireball
    • Cancel/OK sticky notes
    • Apple Glyph a Day
      • AirPort
      • Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers – Bloomberg
      • final cancellation
      • 802.11 standards
        • Wi-Fi Alliance
        • AirPort intro at MacWorld NY 1999
          • iBook G3
          • Phil Schiller’s death drop
          • AirPort website at launch
          • Lucent WaveLAN


            • ad for original AirPort Base Station
            • AirPort Card
              • PDF manual
              • adapter for iMac G3
              • AirPort Extreme
              • AirPort Express
                • AirTunes (later AirPlay)
                • Wireless distribution system (WDS)
                • 802.11n update announced via press release
                • Time Capsule
                • removal of “AirPort” references from Mac OS Lion
                • teardown of tower AirPort Base Station
                  • ...more
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