RE: Audiobooks - Listening And Learning
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I just recently started deleting podcasts from Overcast and going back to some fantasty audiobooks that I recently found on my hard drive. I've been listening to podcasts since around 2005, whenever TWiT TWiTstarted. That and Security Now were my two starters, but audiobooks have been part of my life forever. I used to get cassettes out the local library to listen to on my paper round in 1984/85. A particular favourite I recall was Wilbur Smith's Eye of the Tiger. I learned the word cheroot from that book, ha ha.
Plus one on Stephen Fry. He read the full Harry Potter series and I just relistened to the first one a couple of months ago. His writing is just as joyful.
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OMG. You and I must have been amongst their first podcast listeners. I think Leo Laporte was trying to coin the term "NetCast" back then with his "Netcasts you love, from people you trust" jingle :)
I still listen to Security Now after so many years. Before Twit I used to listen to religious debates haha. There was an Irish Presbyterian preacher and and American southern baptist that had a podcast for a long time.
I also discovered some scifi and Quantumn physics books I downloaded a long time ago haha. I may start having a look at those too.
We're living parallel geeky lives man.
I remember Leo getting all in a tizz about Netcasts. I guess if anyone had the clout to change it it was Leo. Remember the hassle of having to sync it all before going out? Man, those days! I remember watching Patrick Norton on DL.TV on the first iPod with Video when my kids were babies and would fall asleep in the car, so I'd park up outside the flat and watch that show on the tiny screen.
Remember Leo did a show with Amber McArthur, Net at Night or something? I remember him talking to Larry Page and Sergei Brin when YouTube was new. It doesn't seem like that long ago, but in Internet years it was forever ago. Makes me wonder what it'll be like when my kids are in their 40s – my eldest is now 16.
Yes haha I remember most of that. I also remember a few years in Steve Gibson getting into this "bitcoin" thing haha. I wish I had listened to him back then.