Today you may have seen the traditional Google logo replaced by barcodes, and you may have wondered “Why Google is a Barcode?”. Well, as you may know, Google always remember special dates, and this time they are celebrating the 57th anniversary of the first barcode patent.

Two people, Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver were the ones who patented this now commonly used code. The first patent, however, did not involve vertical lines, but a series of concentric circles.

The barcode logo spells out Google using Code 128 “a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a bar code.”

It’s always a surprise searching in Google. Just recently they included a logo with Ghandi to commemorate his 140th birthday.

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