Barcodes, Invented on Miami Beach (video)

Barcodes In One Lesson. Barcodes have revolutionized modern life. Discover what happens every time you hear a beep at the checkout. For more information, check out a book called Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 

Barcodes | 99% Invisible: A time without barcodes is hard to imagine now. But it wasn’t that long ago, and the story doesn’t start with George Laurer. It starts with an engineer named Joseph Woodland. In 1948 Woodland was trying to come up with simple symbol that, when scanned, would translate to a number that a computer could use to identify a product.Legend has it that he came up with his design while sitting on the beach in Miami. He was puzzling over the whole thing, thinking about Morse Code and tracing circles in the sand. When finally, bulls-eye!

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