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where the real hacking started

August 26th, 2005 by Abbas Halai

The word ‘hack’ at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and “ethical” prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which they call “cracking”).

Here is a gallery of fascinating hacks from 1989 onwards that have been done within MIT’s campus and around by its students.

I personally was on MIT campus to see R2D2 on the great dome just days before the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Here is a list of the BestOf Hacks.

Classics such as the Wright Brothers flyer on the great dome, the Eye of Sauron and the One Ring to Rule them All and a memorial to the moon landing on it’s 30th anniversary.

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irony

August 26th, 2005 by Abbas Halai

so it’s ok if the person who was going to be killed, kill the persons who were going to kill him. ironic.

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take the google quiz

August 26th, 2005 by Abbas Halai

in this world of the internets, querying something on the world wide web is quite an art. google has managed to make it fairly simple to attain information, yet about 99% of us don’t even know how to reap the potential of the power that is provided by the search engine. it can sometimes be a daunting task and most people end up with rather irrelevant or obscure responses when querying for something.

how well can you google? take the test and find out. i scored 13 out of 15.

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