Chris: I sold that to them: I was the NorCal Rep for Lucent WaveLAN and we had just won the 802.11 standards war with Proxim. Philip Schiller was a neighbor of mine and he and his wife came to my Christmas open house in December '97, and we talked long about wireless. He set up the first meetings for me in Cupertino two weeks later and then this date in '99 he jumped off a tower on stage at MacWorld while Jobs kept his iMac connected the whole time. Magic. The first big 802.11/WiFi deployment.
Bob Shaw
July 21, 1999: WiFi Introduced...By Apple