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by kitd 603 days ago
About 15 years ago, Andy Stanford Clark's house became something of a news item, in the days before tweeting IoT devices were a thing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/06/things_that_t...

The core protocol, devised in the days when 1 byte over a satellite link cost $1, is incredibly efficient and simple to implement.