#bar code

[jamabushi]

[krjpalmer]

Profiles May 1987

Getting data into your computer by scanning bar codes, which had been an idea for a while (if around long enough to also result in disillusionment) provided the cover story for this issue. The first impressions of WordStar 4.0 hoped it would also be available for CP/M; users of that operating system got pointers on how to patch their programs. While the article on "the electronic shopping mall" supposed the brick-and-mortar original "the cultural phenomenon of the 1980s," it was quite ready to see potential in the online version.

[oldinterneticons]

[webdiggerxxx]

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[kick-a-long]

Another fun antisemitic conspiracy theory most people don’t understand as an antisemitic conspiracy theory is the irrational fear of bar codes!

Barcodes were widely adopted as industry standard by a Jewish guy named Alen Haberman in 1974. (To speed up groceries scanning)

By the 80s fundamentalist Christians began to believe they were a way to track citizens and were being used by the government for mind control. Sound familiar? There were similar scares about credit cards but they were never as hated or part of conspiracy thinking as the ‘Jewish coded’ bar codes.

If you were wondering why trump went on a random tangent hating on bar codes.

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[posthumanwanderings]

Britney Spears @ opening of Bar Code, New York (2000) Games: Daytona USA + Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders

[mikael-darkan]