What is Bitcoin Faucet ?
A site run by Gavin Andresen to make Bitcoin popular. The visitors to the website had to complete a captcha to earn 5 Bitcoins. This was done with an intention to ensure that Bitcoin reached a wide audience who could make use of it.
19,700 Bitcoins were distributed free of cost through this faucet till the time it was closed in the year 2012. There were other free Bitcoin faucets such as FreeBitcoin.in, Cointiply and Faucethub.