2001 epiphanies, christophe bruno who also brought you 2002 adwords poetry,
2008 he works on dadameter measuring the distance to dada.

2002 there was also goopoetry
as well as googlism, - sort of fits to the list.

2004 spam is poetry, email poetry
google suggest poetry

2005 came leevi letho and

2006: google poetry robot by geoff peters
55 ways to have fun with google by philipp leussen

and today ...

french method: "portrait parle" by alphonse bertillon, photos and body measurements, since ~1888, photographie judiciaire. already there: iris scan, the ear ... yet, germans don't need to show their ear any longer for their pass ...

the english way: fingerprints brought to you by henry faulds, william james herschel, and sir francis galton [charles darwin's cousin], encyclopedia says, but also bertillon was doing it and it has been in use early on in china
some pioneers.

1903, the case of will west

two different persons having the
same bertillon measurements which strengthened the case in favor of the science of fingerprints | biometrics person authentication

1984: dna profiling

... first DNA "fingerprinting" technique, discovered by Dr. Alec Jeffries of the Lister Institute of Leicester University, England.| interactive investigators

who do we think we are, guardian

france telecom: 187,331
dt telekom: 242,000
telekom austria: 16.061