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QR codes are useful for sharing bulk information in a machine readable format, but they lack one key feature that’s kind of crucial for how most people currently use the internet: 99% of people can’t memorize them, and they cannot be communicated without some technology involved. dev.to is trivial to memorize. I can share it with someone who has never heard of it in a regular conversation without anybody having to pull out their phone and be reasonably certain they will type it in correctly (or closely enough that a search engine will find it for them). The QR-code equivalent is a 21×21 image that has to have most of the pixels correct to work correctly, most people would be hard-pressed to memorize those 249 pixels (ignoring the alignment targets), and the only way to share it is an image.
This doesn’t mean they’re not good in some cases. If you pay attention to the actual URLs that are found in most QR codes that do in fact encode URLs (because they can encode other things), you will notice that many of them are long enough for typing them in by hand to be error-prone, hence why a QR code is being used to begin with.
Hey;) What I meant of course is that the apps still have names even the QR codes for them exist, so typing dev.to in search in my concept will list it in search results and you can open it same as you type YouTube in the AppStore and then click the logo to open it, names and logos still exist, the internet I describe is kind of futuristic and hard to explain but see it as a giant open app store.
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QR codes are useful for sharing bulk information in a machine readable format, but they lack one key feature that’s kind of crucial for how most people currently use the internet: 99% of people can’t memorize them, and they cannot be communicated without some technology involved.
dev.tois trivial to memorize. I can share it with someone who has never heard of it in a regular conversation without anybody having to pull out their phone and be reasonably certain they will type it in correctly (or closely enough that a search engine will find it for them). The QR-code equivalent is a 21×21 image that has to have most of the pixels correct to work correctly, most people would be hard-pressed to memorize those 249 pixels (ignoring the alignment targets), and the only way to share it is an image.This doesn’t mean they’re not good in some cases. If you pay attention to the actual URLs that are found in most QR codes that do in fact encode URLs (because they can encode other things), you will notice that many of them are long enough for typing them in by hand to be error-prone, hence why a QR code is being used to begin with.
Hey;) What I meant of course is that the apps still have names even the QR codes for them exist, so typing dev.to in search in my concept will list it in search results and you can open it same as you type YouTube in the AppStore and then click the logo to open it, names and logos still exist, the internet I describe is kind of futuristic and hard to explain but see it as a giant open app store.