I bet kids today don’t even understand the original concept of everything being offline that you would have software to download episodes of podcasts from RSS feeds and automatically upload them to your iPod on the next sync.
Like you had to plan ahead before leaving the house. There were definitely times I was late leaving the house because I was waiting for my iPod sync to finish so I would have podcasts to listen to on my commute.
It was so small and unique. The daily source code was kind of the “look at this cool thing” of podcasting back in the day.
3g data really shifted podcast long from its original form to an on demand model.
It does almost feel like a failure on our part that the Gen Zers I meet typically see devices as completely solid-state and always online. But it’s almost one step further than that, there was somebody on here a few weeks ago talking about that being able to take your music in with you from the car would have been sci-fi in the 70s and I was like cassettes are portable… It’s almost like the tendency to look at past generations as less capable than your own has also been dialed up to 11 in the current crop of college aged Gen Zers especially. But this has just been my personal experience.
2010?
The ‘pod’ part of podcast comes from iPod, they are from like 2004.
They even tried to make ‘vodcast’ a thing when the video iPod came out.
I bet kids today don’t even understand the original concept of everything being offline that you would have software to download episodes of podcasts from RSS feeds and automatically upload them to your iPod on the next sync.
Like you had to plan ahead before leaving the house. There were definitely times I was late leaving the house because I was waiting for my iPod sync to finish so I would have podcasts to listen to on my commute.
It was so small and unique. The daily source code was kind of the “look at this cool thing” of podcasting back in the day.
3g data really shifted podcast long from its original form to an on demand model.
Crazy how different and mainstream it all is now.
It does almost feel like a failure on our part that the Gen Zers I meet typically see devices as completely solid-state and always online. But it’s almost one step further than that, there was somebody on here a few weeks ago talking about that being able to take your music in with you from the car would have been sci-fi in the 70s and I was like cassettes are portable… It’s almost like the tendency to look at past generations as less capable than your own has also been dialed up to 11 in the current crop of college aged Gen Zers especially. But this has just been my personal experience.