A tidy directory of tens of thousands of broadcast stations by country, genre and topic, with nothing to sign up for before you press play.
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radio.net sits in World Radio under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Radio stations plotted on a map or sorted by decade. The fastest way to feel like you are somewhere else without leaving the tab.
Yes. radio.net is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use radio.net without signing up for anything.
Yes. radio.net works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It does need sound, so bring headphones.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear what people there were actually listening to, curated by humans since 1900.
Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.
The big one: broadcast radio, sport and podcasts from most of the world, free with adverts and no account needed to listen.
Software-defined radio receivers around the world you can tune through a browser, listening to shortwave through somebody else's aerial.
Rain radar for most of the world with a past-and-future loop, which answers the question of whether to leave now in about four seconds.
A library of specific, doable kindness ideas and the research on why doing them helps the doer as much as the recipient.
Blows one image up into a multi-page halftone poster that you print at home and tape across an entire wall.
A short typing course with a certificate at the end, oddly motivating for something nobody will ever ask you to show.
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