Definition of Dumpster Diving

I found a good definition of Dumpster Diving.  You can find that definition here.

Part of the definition is:

The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health in some hacker’s den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially useful) cruft.

I think I this blog seems to prove the last portion, since my junk drawer and the bins in my garage are similar to the “basements” mentioned.

(I also love the phrasing ‘hacker’s den,’ it makes me think of some mixture of a chop shop for cars and an opium den…it makes for an interesting mental image.)

Originally posted by the author with b5media on Wednesday, January 2, 2008.