I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works

when QR codes first came out I thought they were awful never going to catch on this is a flowchart from the time that really resonated with me the problem as I saw it was that QR codes are ugly and they mean nothing to people I would rather just see a website or a word that I could Google QR codes are a language for machines and I am a human but I was wrong QR codes obviously turned out to be so useful that they are now you ious used in everything from tickets to restaurant menus and advertising in some countries they're the most common way to exchange money and the story of QR codes is a very human one the origin of these checkerboard patterns actually dates back to our first efforts at digitizing information in 1825 there was a renowned painter who lived in New Haven Connecticut with his wife and two kids his big break came one day when he was invited to paint a portrait of the Marque Lafayette a hero of the American Revolution even though his wife was expecting their third child any day the opportunity was too good to pass up and he hastily set off for Washington DC where Lafayette was waiting there the painter wrote to his wife describing his first meeting with Lafayette signing off with the words we'll write again soon love to all the children in the greatest taste but with the same Ardent affection as ever thy loving husband after a few days with with no reply a courier delivered a letter which said his wife was Ill after child birth worried the painter rushed home he traveled by horse and wagon day and night managing to arrive back in New Haven in several days but it was far too late his wife had died not only that he had missed the funeral her body was already buried in the ground the painter's name was Samuel Finley Bri moris from that day forward Morris set out to find a faster way to communicate over long distances he got a job at New York University where he attended lectures on electricity a rapidly developing field at the time in 1836 along with Joseph Henry and Alfred Vil he devised a machine that could send electrical pulses along a wire this was not the first electric ...