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The other day I saw a QR code on the back of a bus. I'm not kidding.

This is in a small Canadian city that is not very tech-savvy. I am willing to wager that the vast majority of people don't even know what it is. Why it was placed on a bus I simply don't understand. Maybe the joke is on me and I'm the only one who isn't getting this?




I can still remember how excited I was when URLs first started appearing in IRL locations (billboards, magazines, etc), around 1996 or 97. At the time, of course, a lot of the people seeing them had no idea what they were....


At that time, I kept a physical log of all URLs I saw (by hands, even very long ones!), just in case I needed to visit the web site. I still have it but the addresses are no longer valid. :)




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