From one connected coffee pot in 1982 to billions of devices online today
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-11
dreamwieber shares a tech-history nugget: while billions of devices are hooked up to the internet today, the first one appeared in 1982 — the famous networked coffee pot, with a link to the story.
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