A Brief History of the Use of Barcodes
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 10:24PM |
Print Article These days almost everyone knows what a barcode is. It’s that black and white striped box on all the packages purchased at the grocery store. There are many different types of barcodes, but technically, the term refers to any “optical machine-readable representation of data.” Despite the common use of the term, many people may not know the origins, history, and evolution of the use of barcodes.
