Timeline for Is CAPTCHA a contrived acronym?
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| Dec 8, 2011 at 8:46 | comment | added | sarah | Oh, I thought the CA part stood for completely annoying. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 1:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @mickeyf: How on earth can you say that? Are you seriously suggesting it would have been called Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart if the initial letters (ignoring a few repeated T's) hadn't happened to spell out a homonym of a word closely associated with the purpose of the system? | |
| Mar 1, 2011 at 12:49 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| Feb 25, 2011 at 10:00 | vote | accept | avpaderno | ||
| Feb 24, 2011 at 14:39 | comment | added | user597 | It's a rare acronym that isn't contrived. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 7:56 | answer | added | stacker | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 6:59 | answer | added | Eldroß | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 6:54 | history | asked | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 2.5 |