[Noisebridge-discuss] history of hacking on Youtube

[Mitch Altman]

I wrote an article about how to start a hackerspace, that will be in the next issue of MAKE Magazine (issue 24.5 special issue on tools).  I thought it would be a good idea to have a brief history of the hackerspace movement.  I was suprised on how little is written down about this.  It is mostly an oral history, where some people have bits and pieces of the story.  But there are also some snippets here and there online, including a video of part of a (oddly miogynistic) panel talk at a HOPE conference from many years ago with people who started early hackerspaces (L0pht, New Hack City).  I put together a very brief outline for the upcoming article.  I hope that is a starting point for others to flush out.
 
Mitch.
 

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> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:30:05 -0700
> From: jtfoote at ieee.org
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> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] history of hacking on Youtube
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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:09 PM,
> <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> > Digging through old email (from 2007) in my TODO folder and found
> > this.  Thought it might be of interest to people, since it seems that
> > hackerspaces are doing something similar to the early computer clubs,
> > etc.
> >
> > I wonder... does Noisebridge keep mailing list archives around?  One
> > day an historian will likely be wishing one existed :-) Also, expect
> > a documentary; it's inevitable.  Maybe Steven Levy could write a
> > paperback on it :-)
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=history+of+hacking&aq=f
> >
> > Quoted one of my friends:
> >
> > Lot of good historical info on the early phreaking scene, blue boxing, how the
> > phreaking crowd and Captain Crunch inspired the creation of the first Apple
> > Computer, etc.  I didn't realize how small of a community is was in the
> > pre-80's (I got into computers in '81).
> >
> > For example, I hadn't known about Bill Gate's early head butting with the
> > famous Home Brew Computer Club back in the day over their "free and open
> > ways"...  an echo of Microsoft's stance today against open source and the
> > free/libre information ethos.
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