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BarcodeBarcode by Conor Lawless (cc by)

So I once met the person who invented barcodes, a woman engineer working for IBM in the mid-60s ... She is, of course, not named on the patent: basalganglia talks the origins of the barcode in jessamyn's great fundraising member-sponsored post on supermarkets. All member-sponsored posts here.

11/09/22
by taz

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