A Thing You Could’ve Flexed, 15 Years Ago

15 Years ago I was like, 5 months old.. dang bruh.

Let’s Get to the Point:

Exactly what the title implies. Hey guys, I’m back with one of my legendary finds. Today I present Radio Garden. Yes, you read that right. “Radio Garden” (angel halos and pixie dust and other magical things floating in the air)

Radio Garden is a non-profit radio service based in the Netherlands. Essentially you can listen to virtually any radio station in the world. It was part of a research project from 2013 to 2016, but they continue to maintain the website. The creator’s purpose for Radio Garden was to, “narrow the boundaries for the radio”  –  dope!

Okay, what do I do?:

1. What an insightful question! Click here for starters.
2. It might take a few seconds to load, but then you’ll be able to see a “google earth”-type globe with some green blobs. Each blob is a radio station, and depending on how far you’re zoomed in/out, it can also represent the density of different radio stations that area. In other words, the bigger the blob, the more variety of radio stations.
3. Choose your own adventure!
   • Use your trackpad to scroll around. You have the option to drag the website’s circular cursor around, and it will play the most precise radio it lands on.
   • Click directly on a green circle.
   • Use the search bar to search radios by their, Country, City, or Station name
   • Or.. you could scroll around like a hobo

Other features that I kinda need to share at this point:

1. If you are currently listening to a radio, click on “Explore” and it should give you a list of these bad boys:
   • “top picks from the area”
   • “popular in [country]”
   • “Nearby [city, jurisdiction]”
   • “Cities in [country]”
2.  Moving right along, if you like a radio station, you can favourite it! Don’t think it works on Incognito tho.
3. If you feel lazy you can use the + and – features to zoom in and out of the map, respectively.
4. You can lock the station so you can still scroll around while listening to the same radio.
5. If you know about a radio, but don’t see it here, you can submit a radio station if you click on “settings”
6. It’s free!

See, now you won’t feel like a tourist. Haven’t felt like one for a while tho. Bruh.

Bon voyage! – Ha. See what I did there?

You’re welcome, and yes, feel free to share with your relatives who aren’t that tech savvy too, I bet they’ll love you for sending this article to them. And even though having this website might not seem like a huge flex, it allows you to immerse yourself in different cultures, and possibly your own.

Thats’s all from me, aight imma bounce!

Ranya