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Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
@golgaloth@writing.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

This is the whole of academia in a nutshell.

#academia #writing #history #TooMuchInformation #TMI

Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

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

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 -

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

-- the Agricultural Revolution, which began circa 10,000 BC in the
Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting --
Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts? Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called - wait, | need to go back further. 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 - Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh- -- the Agricultural Revolution, which began circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting --
Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts? Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called - wait, | need to go back further. 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 - Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh- -- the Agricultural Revolution, which began circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting --
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