Google's "doodle" Wednesday on its search home page is a bar code that presumably translates into the word "Google".
It also says happy 57th anniversary to the awarding of a patent for the bar code by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. Yes, that invention that now allows so many of us to avoid human interaction at supermarket self-serve check-out lines.
And that's not all. It coincides with the announcement earlier this week of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Charles Kao for his work on fiber-optic communications and Willard Boyle and George Smith, who invented imaging technology using a digital sensor dubbed a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). The CCD has enabled developments such as bar codes/bar code readers to come along.
Google has a history of celebrating notable achievements, anniversaries and holidays via the doodle above its search box, most recently marking the 140th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth last week.
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Anyone who uses the search engine Google noticed the Google barcode on October 7th. Well, don't read much into the Google barcode. It turns out Google isn't tipping their hat to Greg Gaffin (the Bad Religion front man has a barcode tattoo) or the Hitman video games (barcode tattoo), but instead Google is that October 7th is the 57th anniversary of the invention of the barcode. There are rumors of a bar code 666 hidden in every bar code which is ludicrous, and people with subpar intelligence look for something to be where nothing is. So don't worry about the Google barcode – and don't waste a short term loan on conspiracy theories beneath the intelligence of a sponge.
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