CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where

Given that, perhaps it isn't all that surprising that the latest port of Doom is designed to run in your internet browser. In fact, there are likely dozens of ways to access the original Doom online. What makes this version unique, however, is that you aren't just playing in a browser window, but in a CAPTCHA window.

Proving you're human with a CAPTCHA test has never been more fun. Frontend development company Vercel used created Doom-themed CAPTCHA to show off its AI site builder, per TechCrunch. In order to pass the CAPTCHA,

Doom finds itself played in yet another weird way, as a developer turns Doom into a playable CAPTCHA test that's far from easy.

Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart have been frustrating internet users for years. Preventing the likes of account-creating bots, spam, data-scaping,

"Can it run Doom?" is a clever way of reminding us that everything, from toasters to tealights, are general-purpose computers underneath the polypropylene. Though Doom in the browser is nothing new, Doom in a captcha in a browser as a test of humanity is a potentially disarming development.

Doom changed the video game industry by revolutionizing the first-person shooter genre. However, it has managed to stay relevant over the decades thanks to fans who have made it run on almost any device you can think of.