About
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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Inglip
Inglip is an Internet folklore and the nickname of a hooded rage comic character who can communicate with mythical acolytes known as Gropagas through the medium of reCAPTCHA images.
CAPTCHArt
CAPTCHArt is a word-image association game that involves drawing comics using a combination of two words randomly generated by reCAPTCHA, an automated challenge-response test used by websites to prevent spambots from creating posts or registering as a user.
CAPTCHA comics
CAPTCHA comics involve taking a CAPTCHA-generated word combination and somehow fitting it into a comic to tell a story.
