HiP-IP was the place to be for IoT in the noughties, boom. NEW!
Mid-noughties. Broadband was a bragging right, every gadget fancied its own IP address, and the web still felt like somewhere you went to discover things rather than somewhere that discovered you.
the noughties, in a word cloud:
broadband always-on RSS AJAX Web 2.0 VoIP mashup WAP podcasting the blogosphere folksonomy Flash MSN Messenger 56k 1024×768 skip intro Wi-Fi MySpace Ethernet the dial-up tone
Before it had a name
Somewhere in all that, the home and the small office quietly went online. Not just the desktop in the study, but the phone on the wall, the handset on the desk, the box under the stairs. HiP-IP sold and distributed the kit that did it: VoIP handsets and early connected hardware, the sort of boxes that grew an IP address and quietly changed how a room worked. It shipped into more than seventy countries, blinking away in homes and offices that had never once heard the phrase Internet of Things. The things were already there. We just had not found the words for them yet.
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