CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA

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Updated Nov 10, 2012 at 11:02PM UTC by IvanP91v.  

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Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (shortened CAPTCHA) is a short challenge-response test used in various websites to ensure, that the response was submitted by a person before posting or accessing, when not being sure, if a website is having unwanted spam-bots. CAPTCHAs are mostly appearing on 4chan, YouTube, Facebook etc.

Origin

Four members of the private research university Carnegie Mellon University named “Luis von Ahn”, “Manuel Blum”, “Nicholas J. Hopper” and “John Langford” coined this term in 2000.

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Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59AM EDT+5

There is no “mainly appearing on” where captchas are concerned.

Please research more in future.

I’d say confirm – so we can have Inglip as a sub entry.

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