You know how some sites have people transcribe hard-to-make-out words, as a sort of anti-bot authentication? I noticed this today while looking into buying one-off Sharks tickets online:
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Digitize Books One Word at a Time
By entering the words in the box, you are also helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and preserve literature that was written before the computer age.
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I suppose one of the words must be the actual authentication (with its transcription in a database somewhere), so the second word could be the digitization project. I did notice that some of them are proper nouns. Cool!
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