textcasting (1998)

Sat Feb 25 20:59:57 UTC 2006

Slate rediscovers a neologism:

  http://www.slate.com/id/2136959/
  "Textcasting," Anyone?

The earliest use of "textcasting" I've found is in a July 22, 1998
press release from a company called Rapidtext:

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http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.ada-law/msg/19670b63507caab7
Rapidtext's latest technological service is RAPID Textcasting, the
broadcast of realtime text from a radio or TV show, or public event
onto the Internet, with text available worldwide, meeting all
accessibility requirements.
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The company continues to use "textcasting" on its website:
http://www.rapidtext.com/internet.html

This is obviously a bit different from Slate's usage, which is about
supplying text to go along with a podcast (despite the fact that iPods
aren't designed to be text readers.)

--Ben Zimmer

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