Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Dec 04, 2007

I don't like to use this blog to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty proud that the technology* project I led** back in 1999 while at Apple (Airport) was just rated at #13 in the Top 100 Tech Innovations of all time. If I had a tenth of a penny for every 802.11b station out there.. well, I'd be paying somebody to type this for me. :op

Of course, ahead of 802.11b is ahead of a bunch of really cool techs and a few questionable ones so I'm not sure how much stock I hold in the actual Top 100. Still, it was fun to see!

Here come the don't-flame-me-disclaimers:

*Airport and 802.11b are not the same thing. Airport happens to be one the first large scale implementation of 802.11b ever. Many things only existed on paper before we took this up.

** I was the Engineering Project Manager for the software side of Airport and helped for about a month on the hardware side. Plus there were plenty of smart people who played very significant roles (Mike Culbert, Jim Guyton, Art Astrin, Dick Allen, Paul Rikieta, etc) so this is by no means a claim of personal importance.