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Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode – no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce (theconversation.com)

submitted 3 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, in the U..S.

Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong. More than 10 billion barcodes are scanned every day around the world. And newer types of barcode symbols, such as QR codes, have created even more uses for the technology.

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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

Reference explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment