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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Y'all know the first ever IOT device was a coffee maker right?

HTTP Status 418: I'm a teapot was added way back in 1998 as part of the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As part of an April Fool's joke.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Joke or not, part of the standard.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wasn't it a live view of the coffee pot so people could know if it was full or empty?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Technically internet connected though

Edit: Though it turns out no, the standard was developed (as an April Fool's) but never implemented. But later folks have done multiple implementations of it, ranging from temperature detection to automated button pressing and coffee monitoring

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The first webcam ever (even predating the Web) was the Trojan Room Coffee Pot Camera. Scientists wanted an easy way to check their coffee status without having to run up and down the stairs. The Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol April Fools RFC was inspired by it.