CueCat was funded under one of the late 90s trendy buzz-concepts: media bridging. The idea was that there would emerge ways of linking new and old media. Of co

CueCat was funded under one of the late 90s trendy buzz-concepts: media bridging. The idea was that there would emerge ways of linking new and old media. Of course the obvious way was to print a hyperlink, but evidently investors thought people would rather scan barcodes. Like many late 90s goofy ideas, it did resurface in a more successful form later: the QR code. But that had to wait until everyone had a little handheld smart terminal.