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1. Cindy Scroggins on October 7th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

   Today is the 50th anniversary of the invention of the barcode.

2. Dave Farris on October 7th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

   Today is the 57th anniversary of the bar code. I wonder what would be displayed if you scanned it?

3. Rick Neece on October 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

   Happy Birthday, dear Bar Code…

4. Sheila Ryan on October 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

   Wow, the bar code is older than Renner. I mean, if . . . but surely Cindy is correct, in which case . . . I will now sit quietly for a spell.

5. Cindy Scroggins on October 7th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

   There are dates all over the place on this–everywhere from 50 to 60 years. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d do the librarian thing and check an authoritative reference. But, as we all know, I am very lazy. So let’s just say that Google is celebrating the barcode and leave it at that.

6. Lucy Foley on October 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   I suppose we could consider Google to be an authoritative reference and assume that it’s replaced its logo with a barcode because of a round number like 50.

7. Dave Farris on October 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   I just went by what popped up when I clicked on the barcode.

8. jon_hansen on October 7th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

   I’ve heard 57th as well…

9. jon_hansen on October 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

   And barcoding.com is offering a free bar code generator today!

10. Deron Bauman on October 7th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    I guess I deserve a big duh. I did a google search and clicked the bar code which took me to the main google search page. I didn’t think to click the barcode again.

11. Jesse Poe on October 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    I have been waiting since this morning for the Right to come up with shit about Google finally coming out with the mark of the Beast.

12. Derek White on October 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    i thought that was just how it normally looked in Thailand, looked cool surrounded by thai text … here’s how you say google in thai: ข้อมูลส่วนบุคคล

13. Amanda Mae Meyncke on October 7th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    You can always just hover over the symbol, Deron, it pops up what the celebration is.

14. me on October 7th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    The bar code is a “128 Code”, when you convert the code to ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) you get The code = “Google”

15. Andy Maugh on October 7th, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    I printed this out on paper while I was bored at work today, then scanned it.

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