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Steve Jobs: how in 1999 the "computer wizard" stunned the audience with a demonstration of the operation of a Wi-Fi network

Wireless networks, or in the global language, Wi-Fi, have been no longer a luxury for several years, but an everyday and almost necessary commodity. But in the exhalations of the previous millennium, they were still semi-science fiction. And who, if not the Californian computer wizard Steve Jobs, introduced the world to how it works. A hula hoop and Apple's magic gadget - the iBook laptop - and magic happened.

15 years ago he is the co-founder and once the alpha and omega Apple, Steve Jobs, presented something that networked not only the people in the hall, but the entire world, even as a planet- Wi-Fi network. The audience is at the demonstration when it is iBooks lifted from the lectern and continued while walking around the stage without a cable browsed the web, plunged into ecstasy.

Hocus pocus.
Hocus pocus.

That it wasn't about a trick he proved with a ring, as the wizard says.

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