The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going ...

Barcode, the distinctive black-and-white stripes that provide details relating to an object you purchase, has turned 60. LONDON: Barcode, the distinctive black-and-white stripes that provide details ...

Forty years ago today, a cashier at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum bearing an odd-looking set of alternating black and white lines. The barcode had ...

Barcode, distinctive black-and-white stripes that provide details relating to an object you purchase, has turned 60. There are more than five million individual barcodes in use around the world, ...

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