• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    2 days ago

    The term “podcast” was coined by Ben Hammersley, a BBC journalist and The Guardian columnist, in February 2004. The word is a combination of “iPod” and “broadcast”. Hammersley first used the term in an article for The Guardian.

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      8 hours ago

      Like seriously what would be the connection if it wasn’t the iPod?

      Yeah, “pod” cast, like podracing, you know star wars? Like your car is a pod. So like you cast it directly to your car and it’s like podracing cast pod.