🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-17

The market for annotation of data has a fascinating history. And annotation might be increasingly niche with each passing year.

https://www.techmeme.com/250417/p7#a250417p7

For perspective, consider the rise of the most visible format for annotation of data that you’ve probably done thousands of times at this point — Google reCAPTCHA.

It has also been 20 years since the launch of Amazon Mechanical Turk.


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