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Doodle from Google: The Barcode

// October 7th, 2009 // Africa

Check out Googles new doodle. The Barcode.

This day in 1952, Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver were granted the first patent for their invention from the US Patent office. Back then the barcode comprised of a series of concentric circles and not the 59 black-and-white vertical lines apparent in the current bar code design.

The first barcode which, is now 35 years old, this June 26th was first affixed to a 10-piece pack of Juicy fruit gum was scanned in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. According to Motorola, more than 10-million bar codes were scanned this year alone.

TechCrunch reports that the Google logo bar code spells out “Google” using Code 128, which they describe as “a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a bar code.”

(via Christian Science Monitor)

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