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The word podcast was coined as a throwaway
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An entire industry of comedians and true-crime buffs owes its terminology to a rushed Guardian newspaper article. Hammersley was writing about the new trend of amateur internet radio and threw out 'podcasting' as a quick space-filler. Apple didn't even invent the tech, but the name stuck so hard that they eventually embraced it, accidentally branding the entire medium of conversational audio.
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