stackyFACTSLong before they were used for restaurant menus and concert tickets, QR codes were invented in 1994 by a Japanese engineer named Masahiro Hara. He developed them specifically for the automotive industry to rapidly track vehicle parts during the manufacturing process, as standard barcodes couldn't hold enough information.
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