Re:CueCat
by api on Monday March 21, 2016 @11:18AM
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CueCat was funded under one of the late 90s trendy buzz-concepts: media bridging. The idea was that there would emerge ways of linking new and old media.
Of course the obvious way was to print a hyperlink, but evidently investors thought people would rather scan barcodes.
Like many late 90s goofy ideas, it did resurface in a more successful form later: the QR code. But that had to wait until everyone had a little handheld smart terminal.
Of course the obvious way was to print a hyperlink, but evidently investors thought people would rather scan barcodes.
Like many late 90s goofy ideas, it did resurface in a more successful form later: the QR code. But that had to wait until everyone had a little handheld smart terminal.