Age and the CAPTCHA

Who would have thought that the hardest thing I had to do would be to set up an account.  It was a case of the killer CAPTCHA.

I blush to number the times I had to type in a new word --- and it was still wrong.  My eyesight and the CAPTCHA.  It was a standoff.

What's a CAPTCHA?

 

A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.  For example, humans can read distorted text but current computer programs can't.  

Ok,  so I am more like a computer program than I am a human being.  Now that is a train of thought I am not going to follow.

What I do like about CAPTCHA is some of the words come from old manuscripts and by actually completing the CAPTCHA you are helping digitize some old manuscript.

While I may grouse about a CAPTCHA,  my librarian side says "Way to preserve!"