Amaya Toman In today's installment of our tech milestones series, we look back on the day when RSS feeds added the ability to add multimedia content—one of the first building blocks of future podcasts. In addition, we also remember the first iPod Shuffle, which Apple introduced in 2005.
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On January 11, 2011, Dave Weiner did one major thing - he added a brand new feature to the RSS feed, which he named "Encolosure". This function allowed him to add practically any file in audio format to the RSS feed, not only in the usual mp3, but also for example wav or ogg. In addition, with the help of the Enclosuer function, it was also possible to add video files in mpg, mp4, avi, mov and other formats, or documents in PDF or ePub format. Weiner later demonstrated the feature by adding a song by The Grateful Dead to his Scripting News website. If you're wondering how this feature relates to podcasting, know that it was thanks to RSS in version 0.92 with the ability to add multimedia files that Adam Curry was able to successfully launch his podcast a few years later.
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Here Comes the iPod Shuffle (2005)
On January 11, 2005, Apple introduced its new iPod Shuffle. It was another addition to Apple's family of portable media players. Introduced at the Macworld Expo, the iPod Shuffle weighed just 22 grams and featured the ability to play recorded songs in random order. The first generation iPod Shuffle with a storage capacity of 1 GB was able to hold about 240 songs. The tiny iPod Shuffle lacked the display, iconic control wheel, playlist management features, games, calendar, alarm clock and many other features that larger iPods boasted. The first generation iPod Shuffle was equipped with a USB port, it could also be used as a flash drive, and it managed up to 12 hours of playback on one full charge.
