Nerd Archives — 1983

The following is an unedited transcription of one of Matt Selman’s actual seventh grade homework assignments.

Indiana Jones and the Unsolvable CAPTCHA of Doooooom

Last week I wrote a piece about CAPTCHAs, which is the name for those images of wavy, distorted letters that you sometimes have to retype in order to make the Web give you something you want, like an email address or whatever. The point of them is to prove that you’re not a bot run [...]