The internet-era delivery technology that carries audio and video to a device on demand rather than on a broadcast schedule. Belongs here: adaptive bitrate streaming, the content delivery network as streaming infrastructure, and the RSS enclosure, the technical mechanism that made podcast distribution possible. Does not belong here: the broadcast infrastructure it replaced, grouped under broadcast technology, or the platforms and companies that use this technology, which belong to the organization type.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Podcast, Etymology sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Podcast, Etymology section
The earliest use of "podcasting" was traced to The Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben Hammersley, who coined it in early February 2004 while writing an article for The Guardian newspaper.
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