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The oldest MIT hack I just looked up online is dates 1926. It means an elaborate practical joke. Often it is redecorating some part of MIT campus in a clever wa
by peter303 5y ago
The oldest MIT hack I just looked up online is dates 1926. It means an elaborate practical joke. Often it is redecorating some part of MIT campus in a clever way. Occasionally it extends to rivals like Harvard and CalTech. I perpetrated a few in my day.
- ghaff 5y agoThere's a book called Nightwork from MIT Press that sort of covers the history of hacks and related. (I think I have a couple photos in the original edition and I was involved in a fairly minor one.)
- whymauri 5y agoHere's an image of one of my favorite pre-WW2 hacks (1936): https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/car_2.jpg https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/car_2.j... They later set the car on fire.