The Internet Toaster (2000)

https://www.livinginternet.com/i/ia_myths_toast.htm

by perch56 • 7 years ago

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VectorLock3• 7 years ago

Sounds like this is a definitive beginning of "The Internet of Things."

I think Cambridge University's Trojan Room coffee pot probably wins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

sdenton4• 7 years ago

Error 418: I'm a teapot.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

VectorLock3• 7 years ago

1989 seems to predate that and the coffee pot wasn't internet connected, it simply sat in front of a camera.

newsoul20192• 7 years ago

Around the same time, RPI university had an "Internet Coke machine", which you could check the status of using the "finger" command.

Sorry, I'm wrong, it was Carnegie Mellon:

https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/601/what-connectivit...

VectorLock3• 7 years ago

The earliest reference for TCP/IP or Internet connectivity from that doc is in 1992. Running locally over finger before that, so I wouldn't consider that an 'internet thing' per se.

wishrider• 7 years ago

What a golden opportunity to show off my "feedback toaster" project :) https://feedbacktoaster.com/

You put your website in and it gets roasted.

anfractuosity• 7 years ago

Heh, sounds like you could possibly cause the bread to catch on fire.

_bxg12• 7 years ago

Such a simpler time.

_bxg12• 7 years ago

Made me think of this classic: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

bitwize• 7 years ago

Of course it runs NetBSD.

The Internet Toaster (2000)

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