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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 04/01/2026

Reposting with alt-text. @yvanspijk.bsky.social @dannybate.bsky.social @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social

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Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

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Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called – wait, I need to go back further.

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Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media – no, wait, that’s not really the start either –

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Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh –

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-- the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting --

Alex / Grim@thegrimsey.net

I can never get enough of this one