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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.
Thanks for the cool thought Fuckfuckmyfuckingass.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass
Are you in line? Is this where the line starts?
I am the alpha and omega.
Pfft, alpha, so weak. Out of my way, I'm the release candidate.
Anytime bud.
The Pod in podcast comes from Ipod, back in the olden days an Ipod was the only way to listen to Podcasts
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.
Disappointed in this truth.
It wasn't technically the only way, but it was definitely one of the most popular ways
What other way was there?, directly fom the website, or with the zune (another ancient reference)
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.
Oh no. Is this already ancient lore?
(I can feel my bones turning to ash)
I like the german word for broadcast: rundfunk or literally "spray around"
Not really. It's a composite word consisting of the word "rund" (round, circular) and "Funk" (wireless, radio). So basically it just means circular radio [waves] or [sending/emitting] radio [waves] in all directions.
Which is quite literally what a Radio or TV broadcast does.
but funk is derived from the verb funken
Wait ‘till you learn about unicast and multicast!
Sort of. The "pod" bit is from the iPod, the "cast" is definitely as you say.
Fer sure. I just yada yada'd over that part.