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The Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange (ASCII) was a squatted communication laboratory in the ASCII in Javastraat is no more — Ascii
and the group declared a shift towards being a hacklab rather than having a physical space.
Archived ASCII website
Pictures from the Amsterdam ASCII internet cafe squat, 1999
{{SquatNL Infoshops Evicted squats Squats in the Netherlands Hackerspaces 1999 establishments in the Netherlands 2006 disestablishments in the Netherlands 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands
The Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange (ASCII) was a squatted communication laboratory in the Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
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city of Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
. The first incarnation was formed in 1999, based at Herengracht 243a. The lab then moved to the following locations: Jodenbreestraat 24, Kinkerstraat 92–94, Kostverlorenkade 2e, Wibautstraat 7 and Javastraat.
ASCII became legalised when it moved into Jodenbreestraat 24 in January 2000, alongside the radical bookshop Fort van Sjakoo, but started squatting again when faced with a 900% rent increase.
The original aim was to provide a free internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
work space for activists and squatters and to promote Open Source operating systems such as Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...
and free software programs such as OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed), Apache OpenOffice, Collabora Online (enterprise ready LibreOffice) a ...
and Mozilla. Members of the collective scavenged and rebuilt computers from trash. In 2005, ASCII was involved with a plan to set up free community wireless internet access across Amsterdam. In 2006, Javastraat was evictedand the group declared a shift towards being a hacklab rather than having a physical space.
See also
* Hackerspace * Squatting *Social centre
Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole co ...
References
External links
Archived ASCII website
Pictures from the Amsterdam ASCII internet cafe squat, 1999
{{SquatNL Infoshops Evicted squats Squats in the Netherlands Hackerspaces 1999 establishments in the Netherlands 2006 disestablishments in the Netherlands 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands