On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:17:38 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 28/10/2015 06:06 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> But in technology, I see this all the time - IoT isn't a new thing,
>> really - I remember seeing networked coffee makers, VCRs, and microwave
>> ovens back in the 90's.  It didn't catch on then, but the demo was
>> pretty cool.
> 
> HTTP 418: I'm a teapot.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
> 
> Seriously. There is a defined HTTP status code for interacting with an
> IoT teapot.

It's funny, yeah - but the history of that error code isn't really IoT, 
more like RFC 1149.  418 was defined in the HTCPCP/1.0 protcool, defined 
in the referenced RFC as an April Fool's day joke in 1998.

It's a fun read.  (Did I mention that I work with a product that secures 
websites, and HTTP geek stuff is what I currently work with daily? ;) )

>> The idea of on-demand programming was something I was first introduced
>> to by someone who worked at NBC back in the mid 90's as well.  He
>> described pretty much what we see now with Netflix and other
>> streaming/on-demand video services.
> 
> Some day, maybe I'll try that.

Definitely worth it, IMHO.

> Ah, who am I kidding? I'll just sit here surfing YouTube...
> 
> (I'm still puzzled as to why YouTube can actually exist. But that's
> another story.)

People want to publish videos.  Youtube gives them a platform to do that.

And gives Google another platform to push advertising on.

It's about that simple, really. :)

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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