[HN Gopher] The History of the Barcode
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       The History of the Barcode
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-10-20 10:46 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | nhatcher wrote:
       | Derek Muller just did an interesting take on QR codes and their
       | history on his popular channel veritasium:
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       | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8
        
         | ranger_danger wrote:
         | It also contradicts what the other commenter said about
         | barcodes originating with railways. But I believe Derek.
        
           | happytoexplain wrote:
           | It looks like the video touches on the origins of product
           | barcodes (UPC/EAN) specifically, not literal barcodes in
           | general.
           | 
           | Edit: Oh, I guess that's moot since the product barcodes
           | predated the train barcodes anyway.
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Bar codes go back to 1959, when railroads started using big bar
       | codes on railroad cars. This was called KarTrak.[1] Read failure
       | rate was about 20%, which was too high, and the system was
       | abandoned in 1974.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KarTrak
        
         | ranger_danger wrote:
         | Bar codes were first invented in 1949 when a patent was filed
         | by Norman Woodland, previously of the Manhattan Project, and
         | later IBM.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Joseph_Woodland?lang=en
        
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