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Today is the barcode's 57th anniversary. The first patent on the bar code was filed way back in 1949, before any of us had a clue as to how dependent our consumer driven society would become.
According to Wikipedia, "In 1948 Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friends Norman Joseph Woodland and Jordin Johanson about the request, and the three started working on a variety of systems."
The three inventors were granted a US Patent, No. 2,612,994, on October 7, 1952. And the rest as they say, is history.
Supposedly, the bar code is correct, not that Google is planning to go up for sale in the near future or anything strange like that.
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Written by Donna Diegel
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Posted October 7th, 2009 by Donna Diegel
