Terondo’s magazine: stories, portraits, the history of objects and behind the scenes of the site.
From Greeks listening to a speaker in the agora to a young person scrolling through a news feed: six stops to understand how each generation gets its news, and three scenarios for tomorrow.
Where do influencers come from? From Queen Charlotte’s tableware to TikTok, a brief history of influence, its excesses and usefulness, and other words for describing it.
We read less and less for lack of time, rest for our eyes and attention. What research says about listening, what audio makes possible in the car, in the evening or at our own pace, and what it cannot replace.
The Terondo Android app: radios, television, webcams, podcasts, and 275 audiobooks you can listen to offline. What it includes, what it doesn’t ask for, and how to install it.
No more sleeping in; friends, fresh notebooks and good resolutions are back. Between reunions and the alarm clock waking up again, a tender chronicle of a new year that begins in September, from the perspective of pupils and parents alike.
The same mechanism brings about the loveliest reunions and the third-day arguments: on holiday, the roles that kept us going disappear. What to tell each other before setting off, and the image of the trip that nobody ever puts into words.
On the third day, someone always says, “You know, we could live here.” Why do twelve days convince us that we need to change everything, and how can we tell, within that longing, what we truly want from the setting that gave rise to it?
Choose a webcam anywhere on Earth, add eighty characters, and send a real postcard from a place you’ve never set foot in.
Television is built on the idea that you watch one thing. Ours isn’t. Here’s what happens when you stop choosing.
We counted the radios in the catalog country by country, one query at a time. The United States leads, Germany is close behind, Greece is a surprise, and 48 countries are still silent.
It made its debut in Lyon in 1924 without winning, because of its tires. It went on to win more races than any other car before or since, including five consecutive Targa Florio victories. The story of Ettore Bugatti’s little blue car, born in Molsheim and now the ultimate collector’s item.
Bought in India by a French merchant, worn by the Sun King, stolen during the Revolution, recut to cover its tracks, resold by Cartier with a curse invented for the occasion, then shipped to the Smithsonian… by mail. The true story of the world’s most famous diamond.
It was designed for motor racing circuits, not for space. And yet it was the watch NASA chose—after freezing it, baking it, shaking it and crushing it—to accompany every astronaut. The story of the only watch qualified to walk on the Moon.
For nine months of the year, forests need work that nobody does; all year long, people look for jobs they cannot find. An opinion piece by Marie-Christine Corfù bringing the two together.
On one side, American cable has lost four in ten subscribers since its peak. On the other, African satellite TV is gaining millions of households, and free television is becoming the planet’s most dynamic market. Television is not dying: it is changing hands, continents and business models. A state of play, and five suggestions.
In a car, on the metro, in a hospital corridor or in the kitchen, your eyes are occupied but your ears are free. We’re opening Terondo to listening: articles read aloud, audio guides, and soon, real episodes. No ads shouting between sentences.
Behind the firefighters were tractors and water tankers, gyms opened at midnight, associations in high-visibility vests, and spare rooms lent to strangers. A tribute to the whole chain: the people without helmets who did not let go of one another that summer.
The Var burned, then the Gironde; thousands of residents were evacuated, and four firefighters have died in France since early July. A tribute to those holding the line, and to what these flames tell us about the climate to come.
Four times a day for a century, the BBC has recited a list of sea areas: Dogger, Fisher, German Bight. Intended for sailors, it has become a lullaby for millions on land. From the 1859 shipwreck that gave rise to it to the 2012 Olympic ceremony: the story of an administrative text turned into shared heritage.
Before live beaches and urban webcams, the world’s very first connected camera was fixed on a coffee pot at the end of a corridor in Cambridge. From XCoffee (1991) to the percolator’s sale on eBay in 2001: a brief history of the accidental invention of planetary live streaming, and its echo on our screens today.
Walkmans, free FM radio, video rental stores, MTV, arcades: a look back at the decade that invented the way we listen and watch. And at what its endless return, from “Stranger Things” to synthwave, reveals about us.
The first generation raised with television and the transistor, boomers invented youth culture long before becoming a meme. A tender portrait of a generation that now digitizes family memories and brings the radio stations of its youth back to life.
Long before earbuds and podcasts, people listened to someone read a story aloud. From the reader in Cuba’s cigar factories to the “Talking Books” of 1934 and LibriVox’s volunteers: a brief history of a tender gesture, and its quiet return to our screens.
It’s vacation, the weather is beautiful, and somewhere on a beach, two people who didn’t know each other yesterday can’t bear to part. A brief look at summer romances: the ones that fade in September, and the ones that return thirty years later.
Camille collects windows onto the world: a radio from another era, a webcam pointed at a coffee maker in 1991, an archive that entered the public domain. A brief history of the heritage of the airwaves and images, and of the living memory they leave us.
There was a time when an entire family fell silent at the same moment around a radio set. A brief history of shared listening: from the old evening gathering to the panic over «The War of the Worlds», and what remains of it in the age of solitary earbuds.
A conversation by the pool at a holiday club in Djerba, between a Frenchwoman and Ania, a young Polish woman. Two generations, two countries, and the same realization: couples have never been so free, or so demanding. A report on the modern art of loving without losing yourself.
When the city goes dark, someone switches on a microphone. A brief history of night voices: those that kept generations of insomniacs company, and are still keeping watch.
A T-shirt spotted on the street read “Social media kills romance”: it reminded us of flirting before screens. A nostalgic investigation that isn’t quite so nostalgic.
Video calls right in chat, a redesign of chat and video, a header built for foldable screens, and thousands of new radio stations.
A big wave of live animal and nature cameras: zoos, aquariums, safaris, plus playful touches and a shared live-viewing atmosphere.
A single, calmer search, a refined header, hundreds of freshly translated interface texts, and more strings from more countries.
Terondo automatically welcomes you in your browser’s language, and a wave of public webcams joins the catalog.
The first radio stations are coming online, channel thumbnails are getting sharper, and a reliability monitor keeps an honest eye on what’s really live.
A day of fine adjustments: a tidier header, smoother controls, and mobile display quirks ironed out.
From the pink badge of 2005 to today’s logotype: the History page shows how our logo evolved, and how the current design traces directly back to 2017.
Two new pages: the charter that spells out what we accept and refuse, and the site’s story, from a 2005 idea to today.
Streams come and go. When one is offline, you now get a calm, clear screen and a direct path to the live channels.
Streams start muted and gently rise to a comfortable level with your first interaction: never a wall of sound when a page opens.
A sun-and-moon switch flips the whole site between a deep space night and a bright day. Five accent colors, too: choose yours.
After years in the dark, the global directory of free TV returns: rebuilt from scratch, official sources only, no sign-up required.