Few people think twice about barcodes, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, gone into space and stoked fears of the Antichrist.
The first product purchased with a barcode was a 10 pack of Juicy Fruit gum, scanned on June 26, 1974 at Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The code scanned that day was UPC-A, the same barcode used ...
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“UPC bar codes offer another way for our users to access information from the products they interact with, and we see thousands of scans every day. “We are also a media driven company ...
The way to check if your Nike shoes are original is by scanning the Universal product code (UPC) - which is a special barcode ...
It was while working as an electrical engineer with IBM that George Laurer fully developed the Universal Product Code (UPC), or barcode. He developed a scanner that could read codes digitally.