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Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode – no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce

  • Written by Jordan Frith, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, Clemson University

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.

Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong. More than 10 billion barcodes are scanned every day around the world. And newer types of barcode symbols, such as QR codes, have created...

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