Chapter 1The Internet of ThingsAll Things Interactive

DOI: 10.1201/9781003409557-3

This book has been written for the avid technology user of our times—the young adult, the millennial and everyone else who is keen to know about the science behind the things we use. You may be a singer, dancer, poet, doctor or architect, but you will still use the internet as well as the IoT and would want to know about them. Before delving into IoT and its applications, we will first explore the interesting evolution of the internet itself to see how we got to the situation that we currently find ourselves in.

The Evolution of the Internet

In the 1970s, after the Vietnam War, the US Army wanted computers to talk and communicate over long distances with each ...

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