They're Called 'Podcasts'

Last week on The Vergecast (a podcast):

Before a podcast was a “podcast,” it was… well, it wasn’t really much of anything. It was in 2004, though, that many of the earliest names in on-demand audio began to smush “iPod” and “broadcast” into the word we’ve come to know as the way we all download and listen to shows now. In this episode, we go back two decades to the first days of the podcast. Then we hit the skip button to today and look at where podcasts are headed next.

The term “podcast” was a portmanteau of iPod and broadcast and has a wonderful backstory explained in this episode. Did someone just casually call it a podcast and luckily coin the term? Or was a large amount of thought and effort put into that term to bring it to life? Was Steve Jobs somehow involved?

Great episode. Excellent history lesson.