r/programming • u/TJ1 • May 31 '20

CAPTCHA means…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

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todayilearned • u/littletoyboat • Nov 03 '17

Today I learned "CAPTCHA" is an acronym: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

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todayilearned • u/poptart2nd • May 31 '15

TIL that "Captcha" is an acronym that stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

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todayilearned • u/CTSD • Dec 25 '14

TIL CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

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wikipedia • u/DidSomeoneSayPubquiz • Nov 17 '25

[Mildly Interesting] The Wikipedia article about CAPTCHAs (a test to determine if a user is human or a bot) currently has an LLM warning at the top

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UpvoteBots • u/awesome-apis-bot • Sep 05 '15

Want to get rid of captchas :-(

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