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

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

and then there was "*Jennifer Kaye Ringley* (born August 10, 1976)[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley#cite_note-FAQ-1> is an Internet
personality <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_celebrity> and former
lifecaster <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifecasting_(video_stream)>. *She
is known for creating the popular website** JenniCam*.[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley#cite_note-2> Previously,
live webcams transmitted static shots from cameras aimed through windows or at
coffee pots <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot>.
Ringley's innovation was simply to allow others to view her daily
activities. *She was the first web-based "lifecaster".*[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley#cite_note-Banet-Weider-3> She
retired from lifecasting at the end of 2003.
In June 2008, CNET hailed JenniCam as one of the greatest defunct websites
in history.[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley#cite_note-4>
[...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley


On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:10 AM vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:

> the coffee pot watcher was surely one of the first webcams I can remember.
> I think there were some in Hawaii and maybe NZ as well. Wellington, NZ was
> one of the first cities to have an official website, I think.
>
> v
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:48 AM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> there was also "The *Trojan Room coffee pot* was a coffee machine
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_machine> located next to the
>> so-called Trojan Room in the old Computer Laboratory
>> <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge_Computer_Laboratory>
>> of
>> the University of Cambridge
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge>, England, which
>> in
>> 1991 provided the inspiration for the world's first webcam
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam>...
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
>>
>> https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:37 AM Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On 7/9/20 4:05 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > A fraternity brother.  I'm reminded that some of the folks who strung
>> > the wires talked rather proudly about it being a "black bag job,"
>> > carried out with the stealth of a special forces operation, and things
>> > like covering the wires with grease to make them look like they'd always
>> > been there.
>> >
>> > And then there was the Fresh Pond traffic camera, at BBN - I can't
>> > remember who's office it was in, but it was down the hall from mine, at
>> > one time.  (Why is it that I've managed to have front row seats for some
>> > of these things, but managed to miss the direct action.  Same again for
>> > the MIT Blackjack Team - classmates, neighbors, close, but no cigar.
>> > Sigh...)
>> >
>> > Miles Fidelman
>> >
>> > --
>> > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>> > In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra
>> >
>> > Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
>> > Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
>> > In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
>> > nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown
>> >
>> >
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