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Google Celebrates the Barcode’s Birthday with Creepy Logo
Use Google on October 7th and instead of some whimsical Google logo, you’ll see a nameless barcode:
As Michael Arrington says on TechCrunch:
Google’s new logo is a barcode which, as far as we can tell, says “Google.” Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction.
Just plain creepy in my opinion. Great way to handle those world domination rumors Google.
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