1. It has been more than 50 years since the advent of the barcode system. On October 7, 1952, Norman Woodland and Bernard, who were still students in the Department of Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, ·Silver obtained the original bar code patent. Barcodes at that time, unlike today, were not made up of lines, but a set of concentric circles, which were read by a photo scanner.
2. By the late 1960s, barcode readers began to be connected to computers. This system has gradually been expanded and used in various fields, such as archives management in military agencies, libraries and blood banks. The Universal Product Code (UPC), released in 1973, became the standard for product identification. The European Commodity Code International Organization (EAM) was established in 1977, and the organization is undertaking the task of establishing an internationally accepted product code standard. Today, barcode systems are used in more than 100 countries, and the first laser barcode scanning system in history was born in 1978. What exactly is a barcode? It is a system that stores data and processes it accurately and quickly. Bar codes provide an easy way to encode text information that can then be read by an electronic scanner. It consists of a set of spaced parallel lines that hold encoded information.
3. The biggest advantage of barcode technology is that it saves time and is organized and accurate. Barcoding products categorizes them. Therefore, barcode systems are used in supermarkets, department stores, clothing stores, pharmacies, bookstores, toy stores and other places.
4. In fact, the most important part of the barcode system is not the eye-catching small lines, but the column of numbers below. It is in this column of numbers that all information is stored, which together with a database shows the characteristics of the product. Therefore, this system is a very effective business tool. Other identification systems exist, but there is currently no effective standard that is as widely used as the barcode.