Have you ever bought tickets to an event online and tried to decipher the word or words that are distorted in order to proceed the the billing page? Ever wonder if there is a name for that jumble of letters?
It's called a CAPTCHA.
Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. The term "CAPTCHA" was coined in 2000.
It is a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."
1 comments:
very interesting info. now, if only I could get on Jeopardy!
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