History of Things
1946 – AT&T developed the first car phones for consumers
1969 – ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, was developed
1973 – The first hand-held mobile cell phone was sold
1982 – Carnegie Mellon University’s researchers connected a Coca-Cola vending machine to the internet so they can remotely check for cold sodas.
1983 – Ethernet standardized
1989 – Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web
1990 –John Romkey demonstrated the first toaster controlled via the internet.
1994 – Bluetooth was invented
1995 – The first GPS satellite network (version 1) was completed.
1997 – First International Symposium on Wearable Computers
1998 – The introduction of IPv6 and added 2^128 new IP addresses
1998 – Prof. Steve Mann invented the smartwatch videophone (wearable computer).
1999 – Kevin Ashton of MIT coined the term “Internet of Things”
2000 – LG announced the first smart internet-enabled refrigerator.
2002 – Cloud technology AWS platform was launched.
2007 – The first iPhone was released.
2008 – The 1st International Conference on IoT
2008 –The number of devices exceeded the number of humans
2009 – Google started testing self-driving cars
2013- Google created advanced smart glasses “Google Glass”
2014 – Amazon released the Echo to enter the smart home market
2016 – Mirai, 1st large-scale IoT malware
2017-2019 – IoT continued to grow as Internet penetration, security, AI, Big data, blockchain, cloud computing etc
