• @friend_of_satan
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    610 days ago

    telemetry has been around since google

    Actually…

    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.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

    • @[email protected]
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      210 days ago

      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.

      • @friend_of_satan
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        110 days ago

        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.