The Internet Toaster (2000)

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16 points·perch56··13 comments

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

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

Error 418: I'm a teapot.

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

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

Please excuse me, I had a brain fart.

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...

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.

I remember using the "finger" command across the Internet back then, late 1992 - early 1993 time frame. You could use it to see if your friends were online or not, based on whether they were logged into the machine. Back then if your email was username@hostname.edu, you probably were logging in (telnetting!) into hostname.edu on a fairly regular basis!

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

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

You put your website in and it gets roasted.

Such a simpler time.

Of course it runs NetBSD.

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