Not only does it provide the acronym-based etymology of the word captcha, it also explains how web readers are actually transforming old articles and books into computer text files every time they enter a captcha code on a website.
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Cool stuff.
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Wouldn't it be nice if they'd used a picture of the captchas they were talking about instead of Google's, though?
Or do they think old documents are full of words like "ejujle" and "plicrom"?
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Wouldn't it be nice if they'd used a picture of the captchas they were talking about instead of Google's, though?
Or do they think old documents are full of words like "ejujle" and "plicrom"?
Indeed.
I can't even make out half of those :(
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