The scanning of a package of gum in an Ohio grocery store in 1974 marked the beginning of an era.
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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George H.W.'s greatest foe
Reference explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment
Anyone of his generation.
I had to exain them to my parents, and my father was highly educated and technically trained. 1
No one foresaw this? Really? The first time I saw it, I was 10. I wondered why they even needed cashiers if we could just scan everything.
If a ten year old kid thought that decades ago, what were the adults that managed mainframes and minicomputers thinking?