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They’re called “Podcasts”
In another universe, podcasts could have been called “GuerrillaMedias” — so it could be worse!
A few of the early believers called them “audio blogs,” and the journalist often credited with coining the term “podcast” also offered “GuerillaMedia” as an alternative in the very same article. In the 20 years since podcasts became a thing, they’ve changed dramatically — the earliest pods were mostly just dudes blogging into microphones, but now the medium supports everything from award-winning investigations to narrative fiction on par with anything you’d find on TV. Like so many stories during the early days of the internet, it involves a small number of people (and a Yahoo mailing list) who had no idea how big their little project would get.
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