Hit 500 subscribers on my tiny blog about old radio repair manuals

I started this blog a year ago just to share scans of manuals I find at estate sales. I never told anyone about it, just posted links in a few old forum signatures. This morning I checked and it was at 502. That number really got me. It means people are finding this stuff on their own, not because some app pushed it at them. I found most of the manuals in a shed behind a house in Tucson. The blog is just plain text and pictures, no ads. It feels good to know there's a small group out there who care about this specific thing. Has anyone else had a project grow slowly like this, just from people finding it?

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linda_kelly172mo ago

My uncle's attic in Omaha had a whole shelf of those old radio manuals, all water damaged. That slow growth feels more real, like @tessa_hunt42's 8-track project. It's a quiet little corner of the internet that just exists.

the_tara19d ago

The "quiet little corner of the internet that just exists" part really hit me. lol That's exactly how I feel about this old sewing machine repair manual I found on my dad's bookshelf, it's like it's just sitting there waiting for someone to care. I spent like an hour last night trying to decipher the hand-drawn diagrams in it for a 1940s Singer, and nobody else on earth probably even knows about that specific edition. It's weirdly nice knowing this stuff only matters to a tiny handful of people who stumble on it by accident.

tessa_hunt422mo ago

Found a box of 8-track tapes in a crawlspace once, sold them one by one on a forum over two years.