Some of you may have noticed that today 10/7/2009 the Google logo on Google’s homepage is a barcode.
On this day in 1952, Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver were issued the first patent for a barcode-like product. However, the barcode was not the normal symbol you would see today. It can only be described as a bulls-eye made up of a series of concentric circles(see below).
The barcode as we know it was not used commercially until 1966. By 1970 the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code or UGPIC was created to standaradize the identifiaction system. June of 1974 marked the beginning of UPC scanners in retail stores. The first scanner was installed in Troy, Ohio at a Marsh’s supermarket. One of the first items to be scanned was a pack of Wrigley’s Gum
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