Yes they were out there and readable by lots of phones in 2010, and very few people used them. They weren't convenient to use and didn't tend to direct you anyw

Yes they were out there and readable by lots of phones in 2010, and very few people used them. They weren't convenient to use and didn't tend to direct you anywhere useful to begin with. The running joke for a decade (here in the US anyway) was that nobody had ever actually used one.