30 CAPTCHAs that prove bots are just like us
A technology that makes legit the irony of proving before a bot that you aren’t a bot, CAPTCHAs are the most annoying things on the internet. But like so many things wrong with our life, we have been living with it.
Since 1997 when it was first used by the search engine Alta-Vista as a measure to prevent spams, we have seen CAPTCHAs of all shapes and forms. Mostly illegible and occasionally inappropriate, it seems like we have spent a good part of our life that we could have utilised watching more cute cat videos (Charu won’t like it though) deciphering them.
Now the news is that the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is finally dying. (Yes, like most things you learned that full form just before its going away.) There are speculations that Google might replace it will a more sophisticated and usable process called “No-CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”, as if named by a bot.
So in the not-so-happy memories of the CAPTCHA days, we have picked up some rather amusing ones from around the internet.
1. Coked up CAPTCHA
2. That tells you life is difficult. Everywhere
3. Especially when
4. Pops up on the wrong window
5. Tells you bots are just like you. Maybe you are one of them.
6. Tells you, you have no visible talent
7. No visible talent
8. So you might as well, like a teenager…
9. Knows you are upset. Ends up further pissing you off
9. Tells you where you are in life. Provides no solution.
10. Reminds you, the cat from the cute cat video is waiting. Might make you feel better
11. Tries to make you feel better
12. Tries to make life easy
13. Tells you that grass is greener on the other side
14. Is practical and genuinely cares for you
15. Likes pictionary. Is a pre-internet bot in the post-internet world
16. But is a patriarchal CAPCTHA. “Go woman, make food.”
17. And worse
18. Is an everyday internet troll who thinks crude jokes are perfect comebacks
19. Is a product of capitalism
20. Is a mom bot
21. Is quite ignorant
22. But has desires
23. Wants to spice up life
24. Really wants to
25. Is honest, at least
26. Is not all bad
27. But misses the simple pleasures of life
28. Hates being a bot
29. Tries to hide
30. Accepts and wants caffeine