Happy Barcode Day!

Just a few weeks ago, I changed my homepage from google.com to own media website, GamingEssence and to search I usually use the search feature on my safari or firefox instead of going directly to google.com because I think that way is quicker.

I don’t know why today, I typed google.com for no apparent reason and found out that they changed the logo google to a barcode. I’m like, “What’s going on? Is google hacked or something? Nah, It’s impossible because they are the Gods in programming. Well ok, so what’s going on?” I clicked on the bar code and found out that today is the official birthday of barcode. it’s the 57th anniversary of the first patent bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952.

In my opinion, bar code is simply amazing invention. Thank God for Barcode. Without it, people have gone crazy looking for the right item at the cashier, without it, people will have difficulties sorting their products, without it, PINs, important numbers cannot be as secured as it is now. Once again, Happy Birthday Barcode.

Vick Winata

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