Nicola Tesla predicted in the early 20th century that wireless technology would allow devices to be interconnected and form a "huge brain." The Internet was born in the 1970s and early networks connected universities and research institutions. In the 1980s the concept of connecting consumer devices emerged. The smartphone era began in the late 2000s and accelerated the Internet of Things, with forecasts of 50 billion connected devices by 2020 as technologies like websites, domains, smartphones, and wireless networks proliferated.
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A brief history of how internet of things become a thing
1. A brief history of how
Internet of Things become a thing
"When wireless is perfectly applied
the whole earth will be converted into
a huge brain, which in fact it is, all
things being particles of a real and
rhythmic whole......... the instruments
through which we shall be able to do
this will be amazingly simple
compared with our present
telephone. A man will be able to
carry one in his vest pocket."
Nicola Tesla
2020
The internet was
born
The internet, as a
network of
connected devices
in consumer
homes, was
proposed
Multiple
websites and
systems online
iPhone
The smartphone
era was born
IoT a futuristic
concept
First domain
name was
introduced
The first website
online
iPod
was launched
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15 billion
connected
devices
Cisco
50 billion
connected
devices
Cisco
WWW
WWW
WWW
WWW
WWW
WWW