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.
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.
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The Pod in podcast comes from Ipod, back in the olden days an Ipod was the only way to listen to Podcasts
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.
Disappointed in this truth.
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.
Oh no. Is this already ancient lore?
(I can feel my bones turning to ash)