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Electromagnetic telegraph
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Morse Code
Samuel Morse sends the first morse code public telegraph message "What hath God wrought?" from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. -
Arpanet
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Beginnings of TCP/IP
The Internet protocol suite resulted from research and development conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the late 1960s. By the summer of 1973, Kahn and Cerf had worked out a fundamental reformulation, in which the differences between local network protocols were hidden by using a common internetwork protocol, this function was delegated to the hosts.The protocol was implemented as the Transmission Control Program, first published in 1974. -
DNS
Domain Name System is introduced. It translates more readily memorized domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for locating and identifying computer services and devices with the underlying network protocols. -
WWW
Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web.The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.The Web browser was released outside CERN in 1991, first to other research institutions starting in January 1991 and to the general public on the Internet in August 1991. -
The First IoT Device
Considered the first IoT device, John Romkey created a toaster that could be turned on and off over the Internet for the October '89 INTEROP conference. Dan Lynch, President of Interop promised Romkey that, if Romkey was able to "bring up his toaster on the Net," the appliance would be given star placement in the floor-wide exhibitors at the conference. The toaster was connected to a computer with TCP/IP networking. It then used an information base (SNMP MIB) to turn the power on. -
The first web page
The first web page was created by Tim Berners-Lee -
An image was updated
Created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky the Trojan Room Coffee Pot was located in the 'Trojan Room' within the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and was used to monitor the pot levels with an image being updated about 3x a minute and sent to the buildings server. It was later put online for viewing once browsers could display images. -
WearCam
Steve Mann creates WearCam. -
Amazon and Echobay
The Internet goes commercial with Amazon and Echobay (Ebay). -
Sensors
Paul Saffo's prescient article "Sensors: The Next Wave of Infotech Innovation". -
Google
Google is incorporated -
InTouch project
InTouch a project at MIT was developed by Scott Brave, Andrew Dahley, and Professor Hiroshi Ishii
"....We then present inTouch, which applies Synchronized Distributed Physical Objects to create a "tangible telephone" for long distance haptic communication. -
The Internet of Things term is coined.
The Internet of Things term is coined by Kevin Ashton executive director of the Auto-ID Center: "I could be wrong, but I'm fairly sure the phrase "Internet of Things" started life as the title of a presentation I made at Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1999. Linking the new idea of RFID in P&G's supply chain to the then-red-hot topic of the Internet was more than just a good way to get executive attention. It summed up an important insight which is stil often misunderstood." -
MIT Media Lab and its book When Things Start to Think.
Neil Gershenfeld was speaking about similar things from the MIT Media Lab in his book When Things Start to Think and when establishing the Center for Bits and Atoms in 2001.
“In retrospect it looks like the rapid growth of the World Wide Web may have been just the trigger charge that is now setting off the real explosion, as things start to use the Net.” -
RFID
Auto-ID Labs opens which is the research-oriented successor to the MIT Auto-ID Center, originally founded by Kevin Ashton, David Brock and Sanjay Sarma. They helped develop the Electronic Product Code or EPC, a global RFID-based item identification system intended to replace the UPC bar code. -
The first Internet refrigerator plans.
Starting off what is now becoming a meme, LG announces it's first Internet refrigerator plans. -
The Ambient Orb
The Ambient Orb created by David Rose and others in a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab is released into the wild (and is still on the market) with NY Times Magazine naming it as one of the Ideas of the Year. The Orb monitors the Dow Jones, personal portfolios, weather and other data sources and changes its color based on the dynamic parameters. -
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The term is mentioned in main-stream publications
The term is mentioned in main-stream publications like The Guardian, Scientific American and the Boston Globe.- Projects like Cooltown, Internet0, and the Disappearing Computer initiative seek to implement some of the ideas, and the Internet of Things term starts to appear in book titles for the first time.
- RFID is deployed on a massive scale by the US Department of Defense in their Savi program and Walmart in the commercial world.
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The first IoT report by ITU
The IoT hit another level when the UN's International Telecommunications Union ITU published its first report on the topic. "A new dimension has been added to the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs): from anytime, any place connectivity for anyone, we will now have connectivity for anything. Connections will multiply and create an entirely new dynamic network of networks – an Internet of Things" -
The Nabaztag
Ahead of its time, the Nabaztag (Now a part of Aldebaran Robotics) was originally manufactured by the company Violet and created by Rafi Haladjian and Olivier Mével. The little WiFi enbabled rabbit was able to alert and speak to you about stock market reports, news headlines, alarm clock, RSS-Feeds, etc as well as connect to each other (see: Nabaztag opera). The statement was "if you can even connect rabbits, then you can connect anything". -
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The First European IOT conference
Recognition by the EU, and the First European IOT conference is held -
Internet Protocol (IP) in networks of "smart objects"
A group of companies launched the IPSO Alliance to promote the use of Internet Protocol (IP) in networks of "smart objects" and to enable the Internet of Things. The IPSO alliance now boasts over 50 member companies, including Bosch, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, SAP, Sun, Google and Fujitsu. -
the Internet of Things as one of the 6 "Disruptive Civil Technologies"
U.S. National Intelligence Council listed the Internet of Things as one of the 6 "Disruptive Civil Technologies" with potential impacts on US interests out to 2025. -
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The Internet of Things was "Born"
According to Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), the Internet of Things was born in between 2008 and 2009 at simply the point in time when more “things or objects” were connected to the Internet than people.Citing the growth of smartphones, tablet PCs, etc the number of devices connected to the Internet was brought to 12.5 billion in 2010(Related: see Kevin Kelly's One Machine). -
The IOT a key industry
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao calls the IOT a key industry for China and has plans to make major investments in it -
IPV6 public launch
IPV6 public launch - The new protocol allows for 2128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456) addresses or as Steven Leibson put it, “we could assign an IPV6 address to every atom on the surface of the earth, and still have enough addresses left to do another 100+ earths.” -
Cisco, IBM, Ericsson initiatives
Cisco, IBM, Ericsson produce large educational and marketing initiatives on the topic. -
Arduino&Other hardware platforms
Arduino and other hardware platforms mature and make the IoT accessible to DIY'ers taking interest in the topic.
