The future of Internet of Things is here to make our lives as seamless, as de-cluttered as machine-ly possible. We at Neura take you back in time and give you a little history around the much-talked-about Internet of Things. Back in 1999, Kevin Ashton, cofounder of Auto-ID Center at MIT, first coined the phrase “Internet of Things” in his presentation about Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) at PG&E. Fast-forward 16 years and you’ll see the impact interconnectivity of devices has on our lives.

1. 10 Internet of Things
Highlights

2. 1999
Kevin Ashton, cofounder of Auto-ID
Center at MIT, first coined the
phrase “Internet of Things” in his
presentation about Radio-
Frequency Identification (RFID) at
PG&E

3. 1932
Jay B. Nash describes how our
lives will be when interconnectivity
of devices takes center stage in an
eloquent quote in Spectatoritis
“They start our car;
run our motors;
shine our shoes,
and cult our hair.
They practically
eliminate time &
space by their very
fleetness.”

4. 1952
The first ever barcode reader was
built in a New York apartment by
Norman Joseph Woodland &
Bernard Silver

5. 1969
On October 29, the first electronic
exchange occurred between two
computers over ARPANET, the
precursor to the Internet

6. 1981
Steve Mann creates the first
wearable computer in a backpack
that was wired up to a camera

7. 1982
A modified Coke machine at CMU
becomes the first internet
connected appliance capable of
reporting its inventory

8. 1990
The Olivetti Active Badge System is
invented to track a person’s location
A toaster was connected to the
Internet for the very first time over
the TCP/IP network

9. 1994
A context-sensitive memory aid
named “Forget Me Not” is invented to
help with everyday memory problems

10. 2000
LG releases the world’s first
connected refrigerator that tracks its
contents and alerts when they need
to be replenished

11. 2010
Google's self driving cars
hit the road in live tests

12. 2013
Neura launches its beta app.
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