The History of Barcodes

The concept of using something like a bar code to identify objects didn’t really get going until the 1950s. In 1959, David Collins who worked for Sylvania began developing a system to identify train cars that used blue and yellow reflective stripes.

The Boston and Maine Railroad tested this on their gravel cars in 1961. Then in 1967, the Association of American Railroads began installing it, but due to the economic downturn it took almost 7 years to get 95 percent of the cars completed. Not long after that the system was abandoned, and in the 1980s a similar system based on radio tags was introduced.

At more or less the same time others were becoming interested in the technology being worked on by the Sylvania team. A toll bridge in New Jersey, the U.S. Post Office, and KalKan dog food all showed an interest in seeing a simpler and cheaper version developed. The grocery industry was also becoming interested.

Meanwhile Collins had left Sylvania and had created his own company, Computer Identics, which started working with helium neon lasers. They developed a system which used a mirror to locate the bar code. This new barcode scanner technology could even read ripped codes. In 1969, General Motors in Michigan and a distribution center in Carsbad, New Jersey were the first to use this system to track car axles and a hundred models of doors.

The spring of 1971 saw RCA showing off their bullseye code at a industry meeting. Crowds formed, including IBM specialists who remembered that their company still employed Woodland, the system’s inventor. Soon IBM had their own encoding system. Meanwhile RCA was having problems with smeared ink which rendered their codes unreadable. But IBM’s version, when printed in the direction of the stripes, was superior, since extra ink simply made the code taller.

The National Association of Food Chains selected the IBM UPC code on April 3, 1973, as their standard and tested it that year using a barcode scanning system at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. On June 26, 1974, Clyde Dawson took a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum out of his shopping basket and Sharon Buchanan scanned it at 8:01 am. History was made. That pack of gum and the receipt are on on display at the Smithsonian.

For the first couple of years the predicted savings to the retail industry were not achieved. It took a while for the bulk of retailers to switch from traditional stocking and pricing methods. Manufacturers were slow to shell out for barcode labels and the attendant hardware. But the shift began to gradually take place, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Links, search engines and online marketing

To have visitors to any website is needed to succeed online. Without visitors to the website it will be like having a physical shop with no customers. We find a physical shop when we walk in the street and become attracted by the shop window. But on Internet we need to be found in the search engines to get any customers. Customers coming to a website is called the traffic of the website. The more traffic to you website the more success you can have with your website.

Of cause there will be other aspects than the simple number of visitors to your site to estimate your potential success with the site. It is very simple. The type of your visitors is an important factor. Are you getting the type of visitors you want to offer your information, service or products for?

If you create a site for retired people you will not get much use of swarms of school children flocking to your site, I guess.

The type of visitors to your site will be determined quite a lot through the search engines, like Google. If you are able to be found for the keywords that exactly your kind of dream visitors are searching for in Google, then that will be fine. Accordingly the whole challenge of optimizing your site for the best useful keywords is very important. See for example a background picture as one of several stock photos here at A-Z Fotos.

You can do a lot on your site for that optimization of keywords, but what is even more important is that you get links with the best keywords in the link text from other sites to your site in question.

Here is an example of a webpage about Seychelles Travel for Vacation where the url of the web page has the same keywords as the headline of the page, about travel to The Seychelles in the Indean Ocean for vacation – a typical excotic island vacation.

You can also make use of links related to travel and island vacation in this way, see: Tropical Cape Verde Islands in The Atlantic Ocean.

For online marketing the one way links mechanism is one of your best friends to achieve a lot of qualified traffic to your excellent website and to get new customers flocking to your site again and again. Without traffic a website is like an abandoned physical shop. With lots of traffic to your site your virtual reality will become like one of the most successful shops in the street.

Skinny Jeans Does NOT Mean you are beautiful!

Many people get caught up in material things, and feel that material items creates true beauty. They forget to look past the items and see the person looking back at us. Instead we often dwell upon the person we see in the glass. All you can see is someone staring back at you who you don’t think is pretty enough, because we have not met “normal” society standards.

The way we look is not some random act,that we can pin point and show gratitude. The fact is beauty isn’t some superficial pursuit. we might want to even cuss The beauty that we poses today might not even make us want to jump up and down to thank our ancestors for giving us life!

Beauty does, in fact follow scientific standards. Because beauty it’s how humans have historically communicated who we are to potential mates, that beauty is purposeful, but not all. In fact, is really about your health and happiness regarding you beauty. Which leads us to the overview of this book: YOU Being Beautiful The Owners Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty

Here are some reviews by our readers: “This has been absolutely amazing!!! 5 stars all the way!” Good Work! Good work, keep it up! My life was transformed as a result of this book. I used all the advice given and after a week, I noticed how my skin had begun to differ. At first I could only see my pores…Then I realized men had started seeing me too!

What an amazing feeling ! Stop the Age Clock: Look 20 Years Younger, 20 Pounds Lighter and 200% Prettier in Only 20 Days is yet another book that I have enjoyed a lot and I would definitely recommend. Both books are worth reading.

You: Being Beautiful could as easily have been called YOU: Being Healthy …4 Stars! Optimize Health and Optimize Beauty. According to Roizen and Oz, we all would like to look, feel and really be beautiful. This describes the book and “I’m not sure how many men would admit to that, but substitute “feel my best” and “healthy ” for “beautiful. This book is meant for both sexes and not just men.

Dr. Oz tends to present practical information that you can actually use. I’ll check his other books.