10-08-2005, 09:46 AM
penelope Wrote:fiction from me again
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It was a pack of Wrigley's gum. The bar-code system was in developement for more than 20 years before a universal code could be released. In 1948, a supermarket went looking for a faster and more accurate way of recording data at the check out counter. In 1974, the Universal Product Code was ready to be applied to every item that would be produced and sold, and a pack of gum became the first product ever scanned.
A gastric brooding frog is one that incubates its young in its belly.