White, but not quite. The
Gloss version of the Trade’s
favourite assumes the hue of
anything near it. It will never
look the same twice.
We came a long way just to buy online
The FIRST THING was a Barcode Patent granted 1952, Laser tech invented 1960, laser scanning of (Wriggly Chewing Gum pack) bar codes, possible by 1974.
AI - isn't new - first raising its head at Stanford in 1980.
1989: The World Wide Web put a rocket under tech, promising endless possibilities.
Online banking came along mid 1990s, QR Codes 1994, "Big Data" late 90's - with PayPal moving money easily from 1998. Pin and Chip was 2004, leading to Contactless in 2007.
The storage for all our data? Developed throughout the 1960's / 1970's up to game changing Cloud Storage arriving in the 90's; just in time for "The Mobile Revolution" of 2000's / early 2010's; and you thought getting here was easy!
