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With the help of QR code, many of our works have become easier. Through this QR i.e. Quick Response Code, you can do work from UPI payment to Aadhaar card verification. Come, let's know who created it?

In today's digital world, we do many things online. From sharing contacts to digital payment and even document verification, all these works are done digitally. QR code has played an important role in making all these works easier. While making UPI payment, you just have to scan the QR code and you can easily make payment.

The specialty of QR code is that every time it is generated, it has a uniqueness i.e. every QR code is different from each other. Do you know that QR code was invented about 31 years ago? Yes, the QR code that we use today for everything from UPI payments to Aadhaar verification, this technology came 31 years ago.

Who created the QR code?

QR i.e. Quick Response Code was invented by a Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara in 1994. Masahiro has graduated from Hosei University in Japan. This code was developed by Denso Web, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Masahiro Haro got the idea of ​​QR code while playing the Go game. If you have never played the Go game, then let us tell you that it has a Go board, which has 19x19 grids. This grid has black and white stones.

Many information is hidden in the grid

When Masahiro Hara saw this game board, he felt that many information can be kept in a grid and it can be read from many angles, distances etc. After this, Masahiro along with the Denso web team worked to convert this grid system into a QR code. This QR code contains locators, identifiers and data for web tracking. It was first used to label parts in the automobile industry. Later it started being used for many things including electronic tickets, contact sharing, payment.