CueCat 2.0: USA Today launching "Microsoft Tags" barcodes in newspaper you scan with your smart phone to access online content | Technology Blog | dallasnews.com

 

Almost exactly a decade ago, several magazines and newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, rolled out similar scannable barcodes in their print products. The CueCat scanner was a separate device that you plugged into your PC. Scanning the code attached to an article would take you to the company’s website, for example, or a video related to the story or somesuch.

CueCat 2.0: USA Today launching "Microsoft Tags" barcodes in newspaper you scan with your smart phone to access online content | Technology Blog | dallasnews.com

Go look at the article and the picture.  I kept on for years, cord chopped off and marked with as sharpie – it was my RESTROOM pass.

Free from Radio Shack, as many as you wanted.  Who was behind that?  He was a Dallas guy…

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