Happy 40th Birthday Bar Code!
George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code while working for IBM as an engineer.
Forty years ago today (June 25, 2014), Laurer’s creation — the Universal Product Code (UPC) — was first put to use in a U.S. grocery store. Since then, a new generation of bar code cataloguing devices has infiltrated multiple industries and even human bodies.
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Article credit solely to Aleksandra Sagan, for CBC News
