[hackerspaces] How did you all first find out about Hackerspaces?

[justin corwin]

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.


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Ben Brown <ben at generik.ca> wrote:

>  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).
>
> 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.
>
> I still think they're one of the fucking coolest things ever.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 10/15/2013 8:38 PM, john lunger wrote:
>
>  I have a general curiosity...how did most of you learn about
> Hackerspaces? What did you think of them at first? Was it a correct
> impression?
>
>  Carolyn
>
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