Captcha was actually started in the 1800s by Sir William Captcha of Berkshire, England, as a means-tested way of ensuring that only people cut from a certain cloth could enter his estate.
The entrance to his estate would pass the Bridge of Death where his infamous Keeper of the Bridge, Elon Musk, would stop people with his famous line "Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see!"
I'm sure this is true, but the post is from 2020, predating most people's concerns about AI data scraping.
Which just goes to show how most people are slow to catch on, since the idea of scraping social media for AI training has been around since Charles Babbage proposed it in a reddit post in 1846.
Indonesia was formed in the 14th century from parts of Mongolia, Transylvania, the USSR, Zimbabwe and Madagascar because of fears of war and want for independence