Visiting websites without typing

5 Aug 2004: I like this. How do you get web URLs from paper (or other physical media) into people’s PCs, phones, TVs or whatever, when they just won’t type them in? Enter the 2D barcode. It’s easy to represent web URLs in this format. And guess what? Every self-respecting teenager is now walking around with their own barcode scanner (a very sophisticated one, it’s true!) in the form of their camera phone. Put the two together and you can get the public to visit websites without them already being on the web to follow links. If this takes off, expect to see lower-tech applications follow. For example, I’d have thought a 2D barcode scanner could be added inexpensively to your PC mouse, [...]

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