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What was the brilliant hidden purpose behind the very first distorted-text CAPTCHAs in the early 2000s?

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What was the brilliant hidden purpose behind the very first distorted-text CAPTCHAs in the early 2000s?

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What was the brilliant hidden purpose behind the very first distorted-text CAPTCHAs in the early 2000s?
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