A weekly curated list of links from around the web
A weekly curated list of links from around the web launched on May 8, 2017 with 28 votes, #727 of 3,229 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
The Dial Tone is a weekly curated list of internet links designed to help readers manage information overload. It filters and condenses articles from the past 24 hours, presenting only the most interesting pieces alongside their referenced materials. Created to solve the problem of ever-growing "to read" folders, the service is intended for anyone seeking quality content recommendations without the burden of endless browsing and subscription management.
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From the sources
With the deluge of new content produced each day on the internet, I found that my “to read” folder was growing at an unsustainable rate. Along with each new stream of content that I found, each new article also brought its own web of referenced material, follow-up reading or new subscription opportunities, only adding to my backlog. To combat this, I set out to filter and read articles found in the past 24 hours. A pleasant side effect of this was a curated, condensed list of interesting articles from the internet. From there, the “thedialtone” wasfrom thedialtone.com
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