Over at imgur, a user posted “The Captcha Story,” a fantasy comic shaped out of seemingly meaningless reCAPTCHA words from the Internet. We’ve embedded the complete Captcha lit story below…
Millions of use the reCAPTCHA service every year, an automatic service designed to stop spam bots from polluting the Internet. Oddly enough, when you type a reCAPTCHA, you are helping the computer decode a scanned book.
Here’s more about the service: “reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below) A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer … About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day … What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into ‘reading’ books.” (Via Brainpicker)
