The concept of seds (service-enabled de- vices) started way back in the '80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as jini under the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: "Hello, I'm a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?"
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