[ih] Early IoT: anyone remember The Internet Toaster and Crane? :D

[Vint Cerf]

Stanford AI Lab had a vending machine for food and other stuff and it knew
whether you were old enough for alcoholic beverages...

v


On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 8:18 AM Jorge Amodio via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> As far as I remember there was a wired coke machine at MIT
>
> Jorge
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:05 AM Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> > How about Arpanet of Things?
> >
> > Danny Hillis connected elevator buttons to MIT's Chaosnet, and by
> > extension Arpanet.  Users could type a special key combination on their
> > keyboards to call the elevator to Tech Square floors 8 or 9.  Another
> > key would buzz open the door to the machine room on the 9th floor.
> > Source code for this is available.
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