Comment on Wither the history of podcasting? by Frank McPherson: andysylvester.com
@AndySylvester So the Wikipedia article that Frank pointed to says Adam Curry started podcasting on August 13, 2004. But Dave also helped Christopher Lydon before that and they produced Lydon's first show (with MP3) in June 2003. The iPod and RSS both existed by then, so it seems like June 2003 might be the earliest date for the birth of podcasting. BUT as early as March 2001, Dave was sending out a daily MP3 of Grateful Dead music. Well that was seven months before the iPod was first released, so we probably shouldn't call that podcasting.
@Ron good find! looks like March 2001 is the "technical" start of podcasting (distribution of audio content via RSS - my definition).
@AndySylvester If you use that definition, Dave was likely the first with his daily Grateful Dead song. But as you pointed out before, the pod part had not yet been invented. Sending audio by RSS seems much more to be the core of the technology that was involved. A hippie did it!