New Human Right needed: all written correspondence with humans must have everything also in a human readable form.
Please join me in telling DHL that, in addition to using scan and bar codes, they print the codes in human readable form as well and not assume eveyone has a smartphone.
#dhl #barcodes #scancode #smartphone #humanreadable #humanrights
Barcodes were originally invented for trains, not supermarkets. The Kartrak system for trains was abandoned in the 1960s, and in 1974 the first supermarket scanner debuted.
1974, wow, that means I was born in a world where supermarkets didn't have bar code scanners. One way to look at that is, look at the tremendous amount of change that's happened in my lifetime -- the world changes tremendously given time. The other is, I'm an old fart, lol. Oh, I was born in 1970. Well, that's what I've been told. I don't actually remember being born. People told me I was born, and I believed them. Today, I appear to exist. Apparently, I existed in the 1970s as well, as I have memories from that era. I went to "Herbie" movies.
The forgotten story of Kartrak: The first barcode - Peter Dibble
