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Podcasting exited way before 2014. Just check Wikipedia. In fact Steve Jobs talked about it on stage so they were important enough for him, yet he died 2011...

Podcasting exited way before 2014. Just check Wikipedia. In fact Steve Jobs talked about it on stage so they were important enough for him, yet he died 2011... Great journalism /s

ghaff 4y ago
Podcasting existed back in the early 2000s assuming you define it as RSS audioblogs, e.g. Adam Curry. However, there was definitely a first generation which was in the vein of "Hey, I can do radio all by myself" and the current second generation. I don't know if 2014 is the right date--seems late--but there was definitely a difference in kind once you had automagical syncing on smartphones and a viable market for podcasts paying audio engineers and producers, etc.
- kgwgk 4y ago
  > automagical syncing on smartphones What about the automagical syncing on ipods?
  - ghaff 4y ago
    The only iPod I ever owned I had to plug in to sync. Cellular (and to a lesser degree WiFi) connectivity was a game changer for topical mobile content. The lack of same made things like the Palm Pilot far less useful than they would have otherwise been. For music, it didn't matter so much because people were mostly fine with having some 10s of GB of MP3s that they just updated from time to time.
    - kgwgk 4y ago
      You had to plug in to charge so at least for people working regularly with a computer there was zero additional effort required.
      - ghaff 4y ago
        I traveled a lot and didn't necessarily charge daily on my primary computer. I can't say I really remember all the details--and there may well have been factors beyond easy syncing--but I didn't regularly listen to podcasts until I got an iPhone around 2010.
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antics9 4y ago
I used to listen to Binary Revolution Radio[1] around 2005-2007. Also 2600’s Off the hook. From 2007 and onwards I had my iPod loaded with various podcasts every week. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StankDawg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StankDawg

Podcasting exited way before 2014. Just check Wikipedia. In fact Steve Jobs talked about it on stage so they were important enough for him, yet he died 2011... Great journalism /s

ghaff 4y ago

Podcasting existed back in the early 2000s assuming you define it as RSS audioblogs, e.g. Adam Curry. However, there was definitely a first generation which was in the vein of "Hey, I can do radio all by myself" and the current second generation. I don't know if 2014 is the right date--seems late--but there was definitely a difference in kind once you had automagical syncing on smartphones and a viable market for podcasts paying audio engineers and producers, etc.

kgwgk 4y ago
> automagical syncing on smartphones What about the automagical syncing on ipods?
- ghaff 4y ago
  The only iPod I ever owned I had to plug in to sync. Cellular (and to a lesser degree WiFi) connectivity was a game changer for topical mobile content. The lack of same made things like the Palm Pilot far less useful than they would have otherwise been. For music, it didn't matter so much because people were mostly fine with having some 10s of GB of MP3s that they just updated from time to time.
  - kgwgk 4y ago
    You had to plug in to charge so at least for people working regularly with a computer there was zero additional effort required.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      I traveled a lot and didn't necessarily charge daily on my primary computer. I can't say I really remember all the details--and there may well have been factors beyond easy syncing--but I didn't regularly listen to podcasts until I got an iPhone around 2010.

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antics9 4y ago

I used to listen to Binary Revolution Radio[1] around 2005-2007. Also 2600’s Off the hook. From 2007 and onwards I had my iPod loaded with various podcasts every week. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StankDawg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StankDawg