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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What is the Internet of Things?
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Typically, people only think of computers and phones being able to connect to the internet. But in the past few years many other devices started being able to connect. First it was TVs, but it's expanded to appliances like refrigerators, washers, dryers, cars, and even light switches!

All of these additional 'things' that people don't automatically associate with connecting to the internet now have that capability.