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Solve : Google is honoring me ! !? |
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Answer» Well not really...
Just saw that in a news article. I FIGURED it would be something to do with Google but that's just boring.That's FUNNY... My barcode reader comes up with $249.95 UPC 1534656 7738491zI’ma bring my laptop to the store! Anyone care to clean up the barcode's history for me just a bit? When Google did that, I looked up the barcode's history and read this article. According to this, the barcode was patented in 1952, making this the barcode's 57th anniversary. But earlier this year, it was the barcode's 35th birthday (it was first scanned in 1974). Does this mean that it took 22 YEARS for the barcode to actually go from patent to product? Or are these dates representative of the original circular design and the modern bar design (respectively)? Check this. Wiki is your friend, as well as Google Wikipedia would only be my friend if it answered all of my questions, but it doesn't. It explains that the barcode was used throughout those years, but it doesn't explain why one date is the anniversary and one date is the birthday. You could argue that the anniversary refers to the original barcode's patent while the birthday refers specifically to the UPC, but even that doesn't make sense because the UPC technically existed a good while before its first official scanning in 1974. To me, the "birth" would be the moment at which the UPC is actually created, not when it is put into beta MODE. I'm largely dissatisfied with how this whole thing works and I demand an international press conference.I'll be there...i am as incensed about this as you are...Quote from: patio on October 08, 2009, 07:30:25 AM That's funny... Just out of curiosity, why do you own a bar code reader?who knew Google was expensive or ERR semiexpensive? |
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