What does CAPTCHA mean?

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What does CAPTCHA mean?

What does the acronym CAPTCHA mean online? What does the abbreviation CAPTCHA stand for in internet slang?

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Answers · Answer 1 · 7/16/2011 6:45:47 AM

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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart".

The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University. At the time, they developed the first CAPTCHA to be used by Yahoo.

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http://www.google.com/recaptcha/captcha

Jul 16th, 2011 at 6:45 AM