The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.

Forty years ago today, a cashier at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum bearing an odd-looking set of alternating black and white lines. The barcode had ...

It was met with more criticism than even Michael Moore could have mustered. Union representatives said it would steal American jobs. Conspiracy theorists believed it was intrusively "Big Brother." ...

One of the earliest forms of the bar code will celebrate its 40th anniversary Thursday, June 26. On that date in 1974, a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit Gum was scanned for its Universal Product Code (UPC) at ...

Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...