celebrated the bar code with it’s new logo (for today). The barcode was invented in … well that’s the problem with Google’s logo.. there is no clear “date” it was invented. Hence it’s somewhat of a puzzle on why Google is celebrating the bar code today, when it’s not really defined as it’s “birthday”According to Wikipedia, “In 1932 business student Wallace Flint of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration wrote a thesis promoting an “automated grocery store” using punch cards, which customers would hand to a clerk, who would load them into a reader, causing flow racks to deliver the desired products, after which an itemized bill would automatically be produced. In spite of its promise, punch card systems were expensive, and the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, and the idea was never implemented.”
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