Is there a historical dimension to digital pedagogy? The evidence suggests yes! Is the IT historical aspect an immanent part of a digital pedagogical study on the use of artificial intelligence? This question is more complex to answer. A multifaceted theoretical analysis that approaches the studies from a bird's eye view reveals that knowledge of the historical background is essential for presenting even the most modern topics. We cannot look at artificial intelligence otherwise than as a product group of IT sciences that makes its user think: in what way and to what extent is it human, in what way and to what extent is it helpful, where are the limits of its artificiality. This study aims to prove, primarily by grasping at some of the helpful handholds of the rich methodology of hermeneutic reading, that without quality historiography there is no theory – and without the dialectic of theory and historicity– without this fertile duality – there is no practically usable science supporting education. The Hungarian digital pedagogical literature is a diverse repository of the use of the historical aspect – and our analysis also reveals that AI does not have a unified history so much as „stories”. Traditions without which the current tendencies would be incomprehensible.