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Sounds like this is a definitive beginning of "The Internet of Things."
by VectorLock 7y ago
Sounds like this is a definitive beginning of "The Internet of Things."
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI think Cambridge University's Trojan Room coffee pot probably wins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
- sdenton4 7y agoError 418: I'm a teapot. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
- VectorLock 7y ago1989 seems to predate that and the coffee pot wasn't internet connected, it simply sat in front of a camera.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoPlease excuse me, I had a brain fart.
- newsoul2019 7y agoAround the same time, RPI university had an "Internet Coke machine", which you could check the status of using the "finger" command. Sorry, I'm wrong, it was Carnegie Mellon: https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/601/what-connectivity-protocol-did-the-carnegie-mellon-universitys-coke-machine-use https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/601/what-connectivit...
- VectorLock 7y agoThe earliest reference for TCP/IP or Internet connectivity from that doc is in 1992. Running locally over finger before that, so I wouldn't consider that an 'internet thing' per se.
- newsoul2019 7y agoI remember using the "finger" command across the Internet back then, late 1992 - early 1993 time frame. You could use it to see if your friends were online or not, based on whether they were logged into the machine. Back then if your email was username@hostname.edu, you probably were logging in (telnetting!) into hostname.edu on a fairly regular basis!