[ishtu]

It was. You just don't know/remember.

[cptskippy]

I remember using Wifi in the late 90s on one of those jelly bean iMacs. It was never Bluetooth bad, in fact it was rather magical at the time.

Bluetooth is like plate spinning. If you can do it, it's impressive.

[systemtest]

I still remember using an ASCII table to convert characters of a password to hex-codes in order to get my 3COM USB WiFI adapter to connect.

And in order to get the USB adapter to work I had to install a new operating system (Windows 98SE).

Networking was difficult. I remember having to install TCP/IP and doing magical voodoo with specialised printer cables to get two computers to share files with each other.

Nowadays you just plug stuff in and it works.