As time went on, barcodes became essential for tracking and identifying products.
But there was a problem…
Companies that wanted to store and track more information, such as tracking where products come from or embedding URLs, couldn't do that because barcodes had limited storage capacity.
Now, we will see why QR codes were invented.
Sometime in the 1990s, someone became frustrated with scanning multiple barcodes on auto parts, as that was a slow and inefficient repetitive process. That individual is the enigmatic Engineer Masahiro Hara, who at the time worked in the Japanese company DENSO.
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