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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (17 children)

An interesting tangent. The term broadcast for radio comes from farming and broadcasting seeds when planting. Podcast naturally evolved from that term. I'm imagining the podcast they listened too is called "Peas In A Pod." with talking peas discussing plant facts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The Pod in podcast comes from Ipod, back in the olden days an Ipod was the only way to listen to Podcasts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I like how you upset two different people for entirely different reasons. One for it being so old that their mortality comes into question, one for it being the origin.

I find podcasts funny in that when they first came out, my boss as the time wouldn't stfu about the latest one he found that I should definitely buy and iPod for and binge it all. But now? I listen to podcasts more than music when driving. Just hundreds and hundreds of hours of listening to them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't technically the only way, but it was definitely one of the most popular ways

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What other way was there?, directly fom the website, or with the zune (another ancient reference)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They were just mp3s from an rss feed, so you could listen on your computer as well, through your favorite music player (winamp!) or there were also dedicated podcast clients - Juice is one of the oldest, cross platform, open source ones I remember.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Disappointed in this truth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh no. Is this already ancient lore?

(I can feel my bones turning to ash)

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