[ih] History of IoT

[Michael Thomas]

On 2/13/23 2:59 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:
> Also https://larrymasinter.net/0103-ipac-history.pdf for a 2001 IETF 
> talk on the topic for a BOF


What I'm mostly interested in is what came before the toaster. Even if 
the internet coke machine in the early 80's wasn't what we'd call an IoT 
device (i really need to hunt down more info on it), it seems really 
unlikely that there would be a 7 year gap that nothing happening (modulo 
that we were working on it before 1990). I mean, young engineers love 
hacks like those.

Mike

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> LarryMasinter.net
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>> On Feb 13, 2023, at 2:46 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Look at the references for RFC 2324 (which might itself be the first 
>> IoT RFC not sure).
>>
>> I tried to find references for such things.
>>
>> At the time PARC had an initiative Mark Weiser called Ubiquitous 
>> Computing— which involved networking lots of things— and might be a 
>> better name or at least more evocative of why you might want such a 
>> thing and a big address space and likely the justification of 
>> participation with IPv6.
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>> LarryMasinter.net
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>>> On Feb 13, 2023, at 12:01 PM, Michael Thomas via Internet-history 
>>> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> much of a hack as the toaster.