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The First Barcode: A Bull's Eye Design that Hit the Mark!
Ever wonder how the humble barcode came to be? ππ The Bull's Eye Beginning π― Back in the late 1940s, two visionary minds, Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver, were inspired by Morse code to create a system for tracking inventory. Their first design? A bull's eye barcode with concentric circles! This clever design could be scanned from any direction, making it incredibly versatile. Why It Rocked β The bull's eye barcode encoded data in a series of circles. When scanne
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