By now, we’ve all encountered those pesky tests throughout the Internet, intent on ensuring content is only being accessed by humans. Although we may find them annoying, there is actually a very good reason for the whole system. Let us share some research with you! CAPTCHA was developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University back in 2000 in response to a request from Yahoo! to quell the use of their mail services sending out automated spam messages. The result was a computer program, CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The idea was Read more
