This week on The Verge, we go back 20 years to the first days of the podcast

The Vergecast revisits the early days of the podcast industry.

In 2004 , the word "pod" was coined by a journalist credited with coining the term.

In the next 20 years of podcasts, we'll look at where the industry is headed.

We'll talk to some of the people who created the earliest shows and developed the technology and norms that still define the industry.