When George Laurer goes to the grocery store, he doesn’t tell the check-out people that he invented the barcode, but his wife used to point it out. “My husband here’s the one who invented that barcode,” she’d occasionally say.
The very first barcodes were in the shape of a bulls-eye, though they weren’t called “barcodes” yet. The barcode invention was patented in 1952 as a “Classifying Apparatus and Method.” But the innovation would gather dust for 20 years—the scanners and other equipment needed to put the system in place were too expensive.
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Author: Roman Mars
Keywords: bar code, bar codes, barcode, barcodes, mark of the beast, tattoo, upc, upc code, upc codes, upc barcode, upc barcodes, upc mark, universal product code, mark on forehead, mark on hand, 666, six six six, six hundred sixtysix, six hundred sixty six, number of the beast, Beast's number, Number of man, IBM, computer
Bible reference(s): Revelation 13:15-18, Revelation 14:9, Revelation 14:11, Revelation 15:2, Revelation 16:2, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:4
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