Google's Barcode Logo
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:21 pm
Today (October 7, 2009) Google celebrates the BarCode as its logo.
Read the Washington Post article hereGoogle'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.