TIMELINE
THE HISTORY OF IOT
The Internet of Things ( IoT ) is not nearly as new a concept as you might think , dating back – in concept form , at least – to the 1800s
1830s 1980
Machine to machine communication The essence of IoT is one machine speaking to another , a concept that arrived with the telegraph in the 1830s . We can skip ahead a few chapters here : radio ( 1900 ), the arrival of computers ( 1950s ) and of course the internet ( 1962 , if you count early DARPA development ).
You want a Coke with that ? An early example of modern IoT was a Coca-Cola vending machine at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . Local programmers could connect to the machine to establish if drinks were available and – if so – if they were chilled .
16 August 2021