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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/jtruk/statuses/114403489657693936">James (jtruk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 21:55:39 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jtruk" title="jtruk@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/87035-48-20240728110648.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="James" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">James</a></section><article><p>My favourite <a href="https://icosahedron.website/@revisionparty">@revisionparty</a> trivia:</p><p>[EDIT: Needs more digging! See: <a href="https://chaos.social/@dojoe/114404052729125609" rel="nofollow">https://chaos.social/@dojoe/114404052729125609</a>]</p><p>The logo is a circular barcode encoding a 40-bit value; a unique ID that the 'ShotCode' web service rerouted to a destination URL</p><p>This service and host website are well defunct (last active: 2007)</p><p>The Revision logo is a cryptic artifact, reproduced in many digital releases from the party, absent of this context.<br>A mystery in the demoscene archives that will await future historians.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/demoscene" rel="tag">#demoscene</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4957804#notice-9714619">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-26T21:55:39+09:00" title="Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 21:55:39 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jtruk/114403489657693936" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jtruk/114403489657693936">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4529263">A crunchy, pixelated version of the Revision logo - ahem... A ShotCode representation</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/403/460/321/106/149/original/7b09050e13949212.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/403/460/321/106/149/original/7b09050e13949212.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://chaos.social/@dojoe/114404052729125609">dojoe (@dojoe@chaos.social)</a></h5><div> from <span>dojoe</span></div></header><div>@jtruk@mastodon.social @revisionparty@icosahedron.website
I'm not sure that's entirely accurate though: The bullseye is not intact and there's many more than the two data rings required for a ShotCode. Also the sector and ring borders are inconsistent and not lining up in a lot of places.
To me it looks like an artistic rendering inspired by one of the several similar but incompatible circular barcode schemes circulating in the 2000s.
It might well be encoding some hidden message but I'm certain it's not a ShotCode :)</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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James (jtruk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 21:55:39 JST James
My favourite @revisionparty trivia:
[EDIT: Needs more digging! See: https://chaos.social/@dojoe/114404052729125609]
The logo is a circular barcode encoding a 40-bit value; a unique ID that the 'ShotCode' web service rerouted to a destination URL
This service and host website are well defunct (last active: 2007)
The Revision logo is a cryptic artifact, reproduced in many digital releases from the party, absent of this context.
A mystery in the demoscene archives that will await future historians.
#demoscene
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  @jtruk@mastodon.social @revisionparty@icosahedron.website I'm not sure that's entirely accurate though: The bullseye is not intact and there's many more than the two data rings required for a ShotCode. Also the sector and ring borders are inconsistent and not lining up in a lot of places. To me it looks like an artistic rendering inspired by one of the several similar but incompatible circular barcode schemes circulating in the 2000s. It might well be encoding some hidden message but I'm certain it's not a ShotCode :)

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