Moe
08-28-2004, 07:19 AM
OK, this is an unusual request, but I thought I'll give it a shot.
Back in 1996 I found a program online that allowed you to store data on plain paper. How? It prints a pattern of dots, using the entire page, which represent your data. When you need to read your data back, you simply scan the page and the program re-creates the data. So it basically works like a barcode, but using a full page. The idea is that this technique is future-proof, because we always going to have paper and scanners (I guess they "forgot" the program itself ties you to Win9x). I can't remember how much data you can put on one A4 page, but I think it was at most a few megs.
Now, in this age of CD and DVD recorders, this program is useless (which is why they dissapeared, I guess). I'm looking for this program out of pure curiousity, not for any practical use.
So if anyone knows anything about this program/company, any info will be much appreaciated.
Back in 1996 I found a program online that allowed you to store data on plain paper. How? It prints a pattern of dots, using the entire page, which represent your data. When you need to read your data back, you simply scan the page and the program re-creates the data. So it basically works like a barcode, but using a full page. The idea is that this technique is future-proof, because we always going to have paper and scanners (I guess they "forgot" the program itself ties you to Win9x). I can't remember how much data you can put on one A4 page, but I think it was at most a few megs.
Now, in this age of CD and DVD recorders, this program is useless (which is why they dissapeared, I guess). I'm looking for this program out of pure curiousity, not for any practical use.
So if anyone knows anything about this program/company, any info will be much appreaciated.