Today is the 57th anniversary of the issuance of US Patent 2,612,994 to creators Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver for the barcode.

In recognition of this wonderful invention, Google substituted their homepage logo with its barcode equivalent.

If you ever wondered how to make your own bar code, or want to know what your name looks like, check out this online barcode generator.

Here’s my name generated as a barcode:

It reads: thick line, thin line, thin line, space… f*ck!

Where’s that barcode reader?

You can also translate your name in alibata if you want.

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