Amaya Toman Do you remember WAP - the technology that brought the possibility of basic work with the Internet for push-button mobile phones? The beginnings of this technology date back to 1997, as we will recall in today's installment of our series on historical events in the field of technology. In addition, we will also remember the first use of a bar code in a supermarket.
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Pavel Jelic The First Bar Code (1974)
On June 26, 1974, the UPC (Universal Product Code) barcode was used for the first time to scan shopping items in a supermarket. The first UPC code to be read using an NCR scanner was on a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. However, the scanning of codes on goods in supermarkets still had a long way to go - BusinessWeek magazine wrote about the failure of scanners in supermarkets as far back as 1976.
The emergence of the Wireless Applications Protocol (1997)
On June 26, 1997, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet entered into a partnership to form the Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP). The goal of the non-profit organization was to preserve the progress of wireless devices and bring Internet connectivity to mobile devices and create a wireless protocol that would work across all network technologies. WAP was officially introduced in 1999, in 2002 its development passed under the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
