<div dir="ltr">I was familiar with infoshops, computer clubs, and similar before, but I specifically encountered "hackerspaces" as a concept at BIL in 2009, when Mitch Altman came down to Long Beach to talk about Noisebridge. We founded Crashspace that same year. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Ben Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@generik.ca" target="_blank">ben@generik.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I was introduced to alternative workspaces like the ASCII squat in
the early 2000's. The Amsterdam Subversive Centre for Information
Interchange was an anarchist infoshop & internet cafe. I thought
it was one of the fucking coolest thing ever. A place to teach and
be taught, share ideas & information outside of traditional
schooling (which I had long dropped out of).<br>
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I continued reading about spaces like c-base and Hacker Houses, and
eventually when the 'hackerspace' term caught on, I dove right in
and didn't look back.<br>
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I still think they're one of the fucking coolest things ever.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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learn about Hackerspaces? What did you think of them at
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