On today’s date in 1973, a small supermarket in Troy Ohio became the testing grounds for the world’s first commercial bar code scanner. At 8:01 am, Sharon Buchanan scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy ...

Linux will be 25 years old in two days, as Aug. 25, 1991 was the day Linus Torvalds posted his message asking for assistance from fellow coders about a personal project. In a message board, he ...

It's not many 40-year old technologies that can still lay claim to being "cutting edge," but one may be the humble bar code, which started as a way to speed checkout lines at grocery stores and today ...