where the real hacking started
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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