 The remaining inventory was sold off, and Apple partnered with Linksys and Netgear to sell their routers in Apple retail stores.AirPort debuted on July 21, 1999, at Macworld New York, with Steve Jobs picking up an iBook supposedly to give the cameraman a better shot as he surfed the Web.The initial offering consisted of an optional expansion card for Apple's new line of iBook notebooks and an AirPort Base Station.