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

[hadez]

Hung out at c-base a couple of times per year (Berlin was 600km away
for me back then) in the early noughties.
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hadez

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:19 AM, ITechGeek <itg at itechgeek.com> wrote:
> Someone was visiting the DC area and came to the 2600 meeting and chastised
> everyone at the table for not supporting such as a great resource (I think
> that's how he phrased it).
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> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:44 PM, The Doctor <drwho at virtadpt.net> wrote:
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>> On 10/15/2013 08:38 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?
>>
>> I first heard about L0pht Heavy Industries way back when and knew that
>> I'd never get to visit it.  Then I ran into HacDC at HOPE in 2006 and
>> was surprised to find that a) non-private hackerspaces were a thing,
>> and b) there was one 45 minutes from home.
>>
>> As for what I thought of the idea, I wasn't sure how they would
>> actually work in action.  I was raised in an environment where you
>> didn't share your tools or your workspace with anyone becuase at best
>> you'd find a couple of choice pieces of kit missing at the end of the
>> night.  That people would willingly work alongside one another and
>> respect each others' tools and work was a real eye opener.
>>
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>> without accepting it." --Aristotle
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