Bre and Astera over at Hackerspace blog have assembled a detailed history of the hackerspace movement. Covering from their inception in 2008 to date, what they initially believed would be a 25 page booklet has turned into a 182 MB zip file containing a comprehensive, richly illustrated, community generated account of every aspect of hackerspace culture from around the world.
This is a truly inspiring open source literary project and a must read for anyone who is part of a hackerspace, wants to start a hackerspace, or just wants to learn what this movement is all about.