[hackerspaces] USA Hackerspaces before HOAP?

druid at stonedcoder.org druid at stonedcoder.org
Mon May 18 19:02:30 CEST 2009


Yeah I was just talking to someone about that, the CCC is pretty strict 
about "no one is allowed to live in the space". I think that's a good 
solid rule for most hackerspaces to live by. Things have changed and yes 
we now have jobs :).

-Eric

On Mon, 18 May 2009, john arclight wrote:

> Yeah, basically, we all got jobs and now we can afford to have all of this
> at a separate place where we _don't_ have to be kept awake by our friends
> banging on things at 3:00am.
>
> I think the concept has been around a long time.  For some reason, we like
> to give a bunch of credit to the people who are "first to blog about it" but
> it's nothing new.
>
> Arclight
> 23b Hacker Space
> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/23b_Shop
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Dave Giancaspro
> <dave.giancaspro at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What about the "Geek Houses" fo the 80's and 90's  I remember one called
>> the Armory in Santa Cruz California (http://www.armory.com/armory.html).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Christopher J. Pilkington <cjp at 0x1.net>wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM,  <druid at stonedcoder.org> wrote:
>>>> The one in NYC is the hacker halfway house, I lived there for a short
>>> time
>>>> (well before HOAP) and I was similarly surprised by HOAP getting such
>>>> credit.
>>>>
>>>> www.hackerhalfwayhouse.org - don't let shardy get started on how it's
>>> not
>>>> really a hacker space ;)
>>>
>>> I also lived at HHH.  It's not really a hacker space.  It was a space
>>> that contained hackers.  There was hacking going on (any space with
>>> hackers present has hacking going on, no?) but it was primarily a
>>> residential situation IMHO.
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