Barcodes

The idea for a barcode first originated in the mind of a man called Joe Woodland while he was sitting on a beach in Miami.

Barcodes have revolutionized the way data is stored and read across various industries, from retail to logistics. The concept of barcodes dates back to 1948 when Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland, two students at Drexel Institute of Technology, developed a system to automatically read product information during checkout.

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