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Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the barcode.

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the barcode—more than 6 billion are scanned every single day. Here’s what to know about their history.

Peering into the past. C.J. Burton/The Image Bank/Getty Images Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on …

If history had taken another path, bar codes would look dramatically different today.

If history had taken another path, bar codes would look dramatically different today.

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Engineer Paul McEnroe led the IBM team that developed the UPC still in use today. His memoir 'Barcode' unpacks the journey and why another man got recognition.

The story starts in 1948, when some engineering students at Drexel named Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland overheard their dean talking to the president of a…

Hobby Lobby doesn't use barcodes and one theory of why reminds us of the prevalence of conspiracy theories among the Christian Right.