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Tech History: From Spam Blocker to AI Trainer - The Secret Life of CAPTCHA

This small, often irritating test has played a surprisingly big role in shaping modern artificial intelligence.

Alucid Team

Jun 262 min read

Tech History: The First Banner Ad Had a Massive 44% Click-Through Rate

Today, if a digital ad gets a 1% click-through rate, it's considered a win. But in 1994, the very first online ad pulled off something almost unthinkable today: a 44% click-through rate.

Alucid Team

Jun 241 min read

Tech History: How Detecting Black Holes Led to WiFi

id you know it was discovered by accident… while trying to detect exploding black holes?

Alucid Team

Jun 231 min read

Tech History: Dial-Up May be the Dinosaur of the Internet, but it Isn't Extinct

While most of us are streaming 4K videos and running smart homes on gigabit speeds, some users are still crawling along at 56 kbps. Why?

Alucid Team

Jun 202 min read

Tech History: When MapQuest was King of the Roads

Long before GPS apps became standard on every smartphone, there was MapQuest—the online mapping pioneer that helped millions of people find their way with printed directions and a dash of guesswork.

Brittany Perry

Jun 192 min read

Tech History: Android's Surprising Origin Story

Before Android powered billions of smartphones, it was actually designed for digital cameras!

Alucid Team

Jun 181 min read

Tech History: The Lead-Acid Legacy of the First Rechargeable Battery

Despite being over 160 years old, this technology is still widely used today.

Alucid Team

Jun 171 min read

Tech History: How Tech & Expansion Fueled Walmart’s Employee Boom

Each key milestone—whether a store launch, global expansion, or tech acquisition—triggered a new phase in Walmart’s workforce evolution, shaping it into the employer powerhouse we see today.

Alucid Team

Jun 161 min read

Tech History: The (Annoying) Origins of Spam Email

Before your inbox was flooded with offers for miracle pills and mystery princes, there was one email that started it all.

Alucid Team

Jun 121 min read

Tech History: The World's First Computer Programmer

The world’s first computer programmer was a woman—Ada Lovelace (bord Augusta Ada Byron)—and she wrote her first algorithm in the 1840s, long before computers even existed as we know them today.

Alucid Team

Jun 111 min read