The beginning of industrial telemetry lies in the steam age … Examples are James Watt’s (1736-1819) additions to his steam engines for monitoring from a (near) distance such as the mercury pressure gauge and the fly-ball governor.
Internet based telemetry couldn’t have existed until at least the 1960-80. This telemetry wasn’t really as sophisticated as electronic based telemetry. The difference is one isn’t connected to your entire life.
Sure, but Google came out in 1998. I remember it taking over webcrawler and lycos. Telemetry definitely existed before then. But I get your point that telemetry really became a bad word much more recently.
People just want to feel cheated but telemetry has been around since google no one should be surprised.
Actually…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry
Internet based telemetry couldn’t have existed until at least the 1960-80. This telemetry wasn’t really as sophisticated as electronic based telemetry. The difference is one isn’t connected to your entire life.
Sure, but Google came out in 1998. I remember it taking over webcrawler and lycos. Telemetry definitely existed before then. But I get your point that telemetry really became a bad word much more recently.