CAPTCHA is the random words generated to you when you fill up an online form. Who doesn’t hate CAPTCHA? Everyone hates to decipher and type random words just so that we can register to an online service like Facebook. But to your surprise, it is not as useless as you may think. CAPTCHA is helping spammers spam the world and it is helping our old content such as manuscripts and books to be digitized one word at a time. Here is how it works on this funny video talk. VIDEO->
We did free work for New York Times and now they require money so we can see our work? Great, just great.
Very great idea to turn something useless into useful!
Ha !
I never looked at it that way, it is so true. We do free labor so that one day we can buy it. 🙂