Semacode
Sign in to savethumb|192x192px|Semacode used for accessing Wikipedia in the form of Semapedia. Semacode was a software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, known for a product with the same trade name – machine-readable ISO/IEC 16022 Data Matrix barcodes, which are used to encode Internet URLs.
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thumb|192x192px|Semacode used for accessing Wikipedia in the form of Semapedia. Semacode was a software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, known for a product with the same trade name – machine-readable ISO/IEC 16022 Data Matrix barcodes, which are used to encode Internet URLs.
Semacodes were primarily aimed at being used with cellular phones which have built-in cameras, to quickly capture a Web site address for use in the phone's web browser. The system was created by Simon Woodside after he was thinking of a followup to the use of CueCat barcode scanners. When it launched it operated only on Nokia camera phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Semacode” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.