and NOW you've heard it all

[DrLeftover]

A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) has been replacing standard UPC barcodes on products and advertisements because of its ability to provide more information. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background and its encoded information can be any type of data. According to Dick Eastman in a recent Online Genealogy Newsletter (May 28, 2013), “Genealogists have recently been finding QR Codes on tombstones.”

http://commercial-news.com/local/x182740900/QR-codes-now-used-on-tombstones

 

[Evil Eye]

I suppose you could save a lot of money on a larger tombstone... And well, even if QR codes can't be read in the future, tomb stones aren't left in place forever either.

 

[DrLeftover]

I suppose you could save a lot of money on a larger tombstone... And well, even if QR codes can't be read in the future, tomb stones aren't left in place forever either.

Yeah, that's true, but some last longer than others.

Tomb of King Antiochus
Mount Nemrut, Turkey

(the mountain in the background IS the tomb)

 

[Evil Eye]

Certainly, I don't see anyone building a tomb that size these days though.

 

[Sinon]

Unless they're a very special person, that is. Commoners like us won't get anything like that.

I want a wifi icon on my tombstone, just to confuse people.

 

[Evil Eye]

I want a wifi icon on my tombstone, just to confuse people.

Heh. By the time you're dead everything may just have wifi anyway though.