Anniversay of the invention of the barcode

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10-07-2009, 02:09 PM
Airbozo

Anniversay of the invention of the barcode

Yep it is today. What would we be as a society without the barcode?

Check out Google's page:

Google
10-07-2009, 02:59 PM
Mark_Hardware

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ah I was gonna say something about that but I changed my mind lol
10-07-2009, 03:01 PM
Zephik

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Does anyone have a scanner? I wonder if anything would happen if you scanned it?
10-07-2009, 03:05 PM
Oneslowz28

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If you scanned it, it would say "google"
10-07-2009, 03:14 PM
Airbozo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zephik

Does anyone have a scanner? I wonder if anything would happen if you scanned it?

Yes, I have a scanner, but mine would not recognize it. I am going to print it out to see if I can scan it. Gimme a second...

I do expect it says Google though.

EDIT: Yes it says: Google

For some reason my scanner does not like reading barcodes off my LCD but will read it on a CRT. Hmmm...
10-07-2009, 03:24 PM
Zephik

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Why am I not surprised at all? I mean really, even the talking monkey next to me was like "I'll give you a thousand bananas if it doesn't say google." ...needless to say, I owe the hairy little bastard a thousand bananas now. I really need to stop taking sucker bets... and I REALLY need to stop talking to imaginary talking monkeys. lmao

They should have also included how much the company is worth currently. That would have been a nice touch. "uh, can we get a price check on Google please? Wait, how much?? Well THAT is going back on the shelf for sure...". :p
10-07-2009, 10:08 PM
billygoat333

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I used to have a couple barcodes that would scan my name. I was bored at work one day and printed myself a bunch of labels. i cost $6.66 haha.
10-08-2009, 01:59 AM
mDust

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zephik

Why am I not surprised at all? I mean really, even the talking monkey next to me was like "I'll give you a thousand bananas if it doesn't say google." ...needless to say, I owe the hairy little bastard a thousand bananas now. I really need to stop taking sucker bets... and I REALLY need to stop talking to imaginary talking monkeys. lmao

Whoa...

Google's homepage always says "google", no matter what the pic is.
So how did you guys celebrate this year?
10-08-2009, 03:08 AM
KiLLERMAN21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by billygoat333

I used to have a couple barcodes that would scan my name. I was bored at work one day and printed myself a bunch of labels. i cost $6.66 haha.

I bought a voucher for phone credit not too long ago and the last three numbers were 666 lol
10-08-2009, 11:06 AM
Airbozo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by billygoat333

I used to have a couple barcodes that would scan my name. I was bored at work one day and printed myself a bunch of labels. i cost $6.66 haha.

I was on a kick a couple of years ago and printed out barcode labels for all my friends and family's presents for christmas. At least I was amused. (I kill me really I do)

BTW: Check this out:

At work we are investigating 3D barcodes for one of our customers projects (the 2 on the right of the above photo).

EDIT: One more cool link for you:
http://www.idautomation.com/java/linearservlet.html
11-22-2012, 03:40 AM
perry

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without barcodes, our life will be in mess. you can scan it though some webpage scanning function.
11-22-2012, 11:27 AM
Beta-brain

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I know nothing about the tech of barcodes but I love them, supermarket self-service barcode scanner checkouts nearly always way quicker than queuing when you only want beer :)