Google's new logo: "Barcode"
Google, the giant search engine, is popular for its doodle on special occasions. Today Google is celebrating the patent anniversary of bar code. 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.
The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a barcode.Barcode is a Code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser
The barcode is a technical innovation that has become an often unnoticed, yet essential, part of modern day life. The format is a global standard, where a scanner from any manufacturer can interpret almost any conforming barcode from anywhere (assuming it can interpret the encoding format – which is UPC in the case of products, and Code128 orsomething else for other applications, depending).
Google usually amaze people by celebrating important days and reminding people about the significance of particular dates. On 2nd October Google has given homage to the ‘Father of the Nation’ Mohandas KaramChand Gandhi on his 140th birth anniversary. People who have previously featured in Google doodle are, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Confucius, Luciano Pavarotti, Dr Seuss, Andy Warhol, Claude Money, Louis Braille, Pablo Picasso, Vinc ent van Gogh – and Michael Jackson. Google has marked the 11th anniversary of the company by adding one more ‘l’ in the word google, i.e. ‘Googlle’ where double‘ll’ represented 11.
The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a barcode.Barcode is a Code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser
The barcode is a technical innovation that has become an often unnoticed, yet essential, part of modern day life. The format is a global standard, where a scanner from any manufacturer can interpret almost any conforming barcode from anywhere (assuming it can interpret the encoding format – which is UPC in the case of products, and Code128 orsomething else for other applications, depending).
Google usually amaze people by celebrating important days and reminding people about the significance of particular dates. On 2nd October Google has given homage to the ‘Father of the Nation’ Mohandas KaramChand Gandhi on his 140th birth anniversary. People who have previously featured in Google doodle are, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Confucius, Luciano Pavarotti, Dr Seuss, Andy Warhol, Claude Money, Louis Braille, Pablo Picasso, Vinc ent van Gogh – and Michael Jackson. Google has marked the 11th anniversary of the company by adding one more ‘l’ in the word google, i.e. ‘Googlle’ where double‘ll’ represented 11.
