Denso Wave
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Oct 31, 2026
Daniel LucasHOST
And additional trivia, people.
Daniel LucasHOST
QR codes were developed in 1994 by Denso Wave, a Japanese company associated with the Toyota Group.
Daniel LucasHOST
Masahiro Hara led the development team.
Daniel LucasHOST
The original purpose was not the digital marketing or mobile payments.
Mikah SargentHOST
So what is in a QR code? Well, a QR code, it's a barcode of a different type that stores text.
Mikah SargentHOST
Uh, turns out, I, this was fun, I got to look into it, uh, introduced in 1994, uh, by Denso Wave, and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
Um, and there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? Uh, you know, reading a page in a book, and the fact is most of the codes that exist, they don't actually have more than that.
Mikah SargentHOST
I got to look into it.
Mikah SargentHOST
Introduced in 1994 by Denso Wave and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
And there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? You know, reading a page in a book.
Mikah SargentHOST
I got to look into it.
Mikah SargentHOST
Uh, introduced in 1994, uh, by Denso Wave and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
Um, and there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? Uh, you know, reading a page in a book, and the fact is most of the codes that exist, they don't actually have more than that.
Mikah SargentHOST
Turns out this was fun.
Mikah SargentHOST
I got to look into it, introduced in 1994 by Denso Wave, and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
And there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? Reading a page in a book.
Mikah SargentHOST
This was fun, I got to look into it.
Mikah SargentHOST
Uh, introduced in 1994, uh, by Denso Wave and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
Um, and there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? Uh, you know, reading a page in a book, and the fact is most of the codes that exist, they don't actually have more than that.
Mikah SargentHOST
I got to look into it.
Mikah SargentHOST
Introduced in 1994 by Denso Wave and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
And there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? You know, reading a page in a book.
Mikah SargentHOST
I got to look into it.
Mikah SargentHOST
Introduced in 1994 by Denso Wave and then was adopted by the automotive industry as a means to track parts as they moved through production.
Mikah SargentHOST
I've got a link to the Denso Wave history of the QR code.
Mikah SargentHOST
And there are different sizes for QR codes, okay? The biggest type of QR code can hold 2,953 bytes of data.
Mikah SargentHOST
That's roughly a page of text, right? You know, reading a page in a book.