To kick us off this week, here’s a brief timeline of the history of IoT. Around the web this week, Archos launched a smart home starter kit, and LIFX has partnered with Sequoia to secure $12m in investment. Microsoft has partnered with American Family Insurance to create an incubator program for start-ups, which might see insurance firms front the bill for home automation tech in the near-future. Wired looks at how music streaming service Pandora might win the smart home, and Quirky has rolled out its Wink division as a standalone company, which has now launched its $80 Wink smart home hub, but has been somewhat dwarfed by Nest’s announcement. Telit and IOATAS become the first recipients of the Global…