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

[Dr. Glass DPM]

I was poking around the internet, looking into 3D printing.  On a google group post, a member of Freeside Atlanta was very helpful in working with me, and after we began talking, he invited me to visit Freeside to learn more.

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On 17Oct, 2013, at 3:49 AM, hadez <hadez.hso at nrrd.de> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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>>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS]
>>> Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/
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>>> "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
>>> without accepting it." --Aristotle
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