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Ford chassis on the Class of 1893 dormitory, 1926

"No Knife," added to the List Visual Arts Center, 1985

"Smile" banner accompanied by 1,994 smiley-faced superballs, 1990

"Transparent Horizons" with a desk and lamp, 1984

"USS Tetazoo" added to the Hart Nautical Gallery, 1979

$10,000 bill outside of the Cashier's Office, 1993

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1600 green and pink ping pong balls were dropped over a period of two and a half minutes in Lobby 7, 1983

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A beanie cap adorns the top of Building 10, 1996 [025-propeller]

A car parked in Lobby 10 as part of the Massachusetts Toolpike, 1985 [008-lobby10]

A familiar MIT acronym appears on the Great Dome, 1995 [038-ihtfp]

A newspaper sketch of an aborted hack, 1948

A papier mache snowman on the Little Dome, Building 7, 1987

A photoshopped poster for the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings" in wich the "One Ring" is replaced with an MIT class ring.

A tribute to the Great Pumpkin, 1962 [010-pumpkin]

A tribute to the Great Pumpkin, 1962 [011a-pumpkin]

A tribute to the Great Pumpkin, 1962 [011b-pumpkin]

A working telephone booth on the Great Dome, 1982

Al Gore Buzzzword Bingo, Commencement 1996

Almost fully inflated MIT balloon at the 1982 Harvard-Yale football game [110-hvd-yale]

Alpha Tau Omega uses the Sheraton sign to advertise during Freshman Orientation Week, starting in 1967

Alphabetic Number Tables, April 1 1972

Altar of offerings (4k core memory, Jolt, 8.01 text), Cathedral 7, 1992

An 8-foot-tall menorah on the Little Dome, Building 7, 1993

An ice cream vending machine is redesigned to pay tribute to Toy Story and its Claw, 2000

Anchor on the Ralph Landau Building, 1992 (homage to a similar hack in 1975)

At the Boston end of the Harvard Bridge, the Smoot countdown (364.4 +/- one ear) begins

Baker House piano drop October 1972. photo credit: Charles Rosenblatt '74

Banner commemorating the end of Rush, 2001

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Bob Brooks captured the sequence of the Harvard-Yale balloon hack from beginning to end, 1982

Bob Brooks captured the sequence of the Harvard-Yale balloon hack from beginning to end, 1982

Bob Brooks captured the sequence of the Harvard-Yale balloon hack from beginning to end, 1982

Bob Brooks captured the sequence of the Harvard-Yale balloon hack from beginning to end, 1982

Bob Brooks captured the sequence of the Harvard-Yale balloon hack from beginning to end, 1982

Bob Brooks captured the sequence of the Harvard-Yale balloon hack from beginning to end, 1982

Brass beaver gnawing on the Harvard football goalpoast, 1995

Brothers of Lambda Chi mark out Smoots on the Harvard Bridge, 1958 [089-oliversmoot]

Building 10 transformed into a pressure cooker, 1993 [027-pressure]

Calder sculpture "Big Sail" with smiley face, 1996 [056-sailsmile]

Campus police car on the Great Dome, 1994 [024-car]

Cannibal chef prepares to cook up an MIT first-year, 1993

Cannibal chef prepares to cook up an MIT first-year, 1993

Christmas lights decorate the Little Dome, Building 7, 1990 [023a-lights]

Christmas tree on the Green Building, 1973 [032-greentree]

Cleverly painted polystyrene foam panels modify MIT's charter, 1994

Closeup of details on the Hackbuster vehicle

Closeup of logo for the Hackbuster vehicle

Crossword advertisement on the Wiesner Building during freshman orientation week, 1986

Department of Alchemy, pre-1960

Donation box area of Cathedral 7, 1992

Dorm room furniture on the frozen Charles River [002-dormroom]

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Extra tile on the Wiesner Building facade, 1985

Ferdi on the Great Dome, 1979

Fire hydrant drinking hose, 1991

Fire hydrant drinking hose, 1991

Four paper mache gargoyles watched over Lobby 7, 1997.

Four paper mache gargoyles watched over Lobby 7, 1997.

Four paper mache gargoyles watched over Lobby 7, 1997.

Four paper mache gargoyles watched over Lobby 7, 1997.

Freshman Picnic sign, R/O Center Baggage Sale, 1983

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Giant Jolt can in Lobby 7, 1995

Gnurd Crossing sign, early 1970s

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Hackers question MIT students' ability to walk and chew at the same time, 1977

Hackers wrapped a space station prototype hung in Lobby 7 to become a six-sided die, 1986

Hackers wrapped a space station prototype hung in Lobby 7 to become a six-sided die, 1986

Halloween decorations appeared during renovation of E28, 1992 [011-pumpkin]

Heaven and MIT via elevator, 1980s

Home on the Dome on Building 10, 1986

Housing 2000 project in the student center, 1996.

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Image of an MIT hack in which a smilely face was placed over the skylight of Lobby 7 inside MIT Building 7.

Image of an MIT Hack in which the word "PEZ" appears on the Green Building (MIT Building 54) in lights. This hack was popularly called Greenspeak Pez.

Image of an MIT hack where a giant spider-web was hung on a building.

John Harvard sports MIT's class ring, the Brass Rat, 1979

John Harvard sports MIT's class ring, the Brass Rat, 1979

John Harvard's visit from Santa Claus, 1996

Kidnapping of IAP Renaissance Man, 1978

Kidnapping of IAP Renaissance Man, 1978

Kilroy (aka George) on Building 7, 1972 [012-kilroy]

Kilroy (aka George) on Building 7, 1972 [013-kilroy-far]

Label for "No Knife," added to the List Visual Arts Center, 1985

Large paper airplane in Lobby 7, 1998

Large version of collision balls in a lecture hall, 1988

Left-threaded wood screw in the Great Dome, 1985 [014-night]

Live cow on top of the Class of 1893 dormitory, 1928 [001-cow93]

Mags Harries created a steel frame study piece for her proposed sculpture; hackers draped it to become a bird, 1990.

Measuring a Bruno, Baker House Piano Drop 1972 [086-bakerpiano]

Mets fans alter the "SOX" message, 1986

MIT information booth The Source in the Stratton Student Center, before being hacked, 1996

MIT monster eats Back Bay sign hack, 1985

MIT students attempt to be first to cross the newly renovated Harvard Bridge. Hackers had replaced the original construction signs renaming the structure the "Technology Bridge", 1949

MIT students pour a beer to set the VooDoo hydroelectric Dipsy Duck in motion, 1948

MIT Undergraduate Association president's abduction to free Harvard from MIT colonization, 1982.

MIT Undergraduate Association president's abduction to free Harvard from MIT colonization, 1982.

MIT/IHTFP ball at start of inflation, 1994

MIT/IHTFP ball fully inflated, falling off the roof, 1994

MIT/IHTFP ball mid-inflation, 1994

MIT/IHTFP ball mid-inflation, 1994

Mural of Athena in Cathedral 7, 1992

Mural of HP28S adoration in Cathedral 7, 1992

Nerd X-ing sign, 1987

Northeast Wall: Commandments for Cathedral 7, 1992

October 1972. photo credit: Charles Rosenblatt '74

Organ in Cathedral 7, 1992

Organ in Cathedral 7, 1992

Physics 8.01 paper airplane instructions, 1985

Police officers examine blast batteries from an aborted hack, 1948

President Charles Vest finds his office entrance blocked by a bulletin board, 1990

Ransom letter for the IAP Renaissance Man, 1978

Ransom letter for the IAP Renaissance Man, 1978

Red Sox fans spell out SOX on the Green Building, 1986

Reversal of all of the seats in 2-190, 1982 [102-reversal]

Rooftop view of students using painter's block and tackle to bring the car up the side of the Class of 1893 dormitory, 1936 [006-pullrope]

Rush funeral procession, 2001

Scrubbing Bubbles on the exterior of the Wiesner Building, 1995

Scrubbing Bubbles on the exterior of the Wiesner Building, 1995

Shortcut from Kresge to Chapel renamed "Official Nerd Path"

Smiling jack-o'-lantern on the Green Building, Halloween 1975 [033-greenpump]

Southeast Wall: Commandments for Cathedral 7, 1992

Stained glass windows in Cathedral 7, 1992

Stained-glass skylight in Cathedral 7, 1992

Star Wars character R2D2 on Building 10, 1999 [026-r2d2]

Starship Enterprise in Lobby 7, 1989

Stratton Student Center renovation plans with Escher influences, 1988

Student members of VooDoo attempt to rename the Harvard Bridge

Students pull a car, which reads "Tech 2 Hell," up the side of the Class of 1893 dormitory, 1936

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The Burton One Outdoor Breast Society's nipple on the Great Dome, 1979 [017-nip]

The fiberglass steer Ferdi from Hilltop Steakhouse hauled up the side of Building 10, 1979

The Green Building radome transformed into a smiley face using yellow tarps, 1983 [030-smile-1]

The Green Building radome transformed into a smiley face using yellow tarps, 1983 [030-smile-1]

The halfway marker across the Harvard Bridge, as measured in Smoots

The logo of the popular movie Jurassic Park shines down from the ceiling of Lobby 7, 1994

The MIT Confined Space Response Team vehicle turned into the MIT Hack Removal Team van

The One Ring from The Lord of the Rings appears around the Great Dome, 2001 [028-the-one-ring]

The Ralph Landau Building is renamed the Techtanic, 1998

The Source becomes The Sink, 1996

The speed limit for the Massachusetts Toolpike, 1985

The toll advisory for the Massachusetts Toolpike reflected the cost of tuition, 1985 [009-toolpike]

This close-up reveals the spring-loaded hardware used to suspend foam panels above Lobby 7, 1994

Transparent Horizon - Hack [TH_001]

Tropic of Calculus door sign, 1987

Tropic of Calculus door sign, 1987

Two hacks at once: above, a quote from "The Cask of Amontillado"; below, renaming MIT the "Cambridge Tool Co." Freshman Picnic, 1979

Web in Burton House courtyard designed by students as course work for "Art and the Environment" (4.801), taught by Otto Piene.

When Harries' study piece was removed, hackers introduced a giant slide rule labeled: "Alternate Sculpture Testing," 1990. [060-sliderule.jpg]

Windows protest banner, 1996 [072-wincrash]

Windows protest banner, 1996 [073-nowindows]

Related Objects

thumbnail parts from MIT balloon hack at Harvard game
1984.025.001
1982
View thumbnail MIT Hackers model, U.S.S. TETAZOO
1985.020.001
1979
View thumbnail "Bouncing balls" freshman picnic.
1991.060.001
1990
View thumbnail Nerd Xing (hackers sign)
MEM-3417
1987
View thumbnail tiles from 2008 Scrabble hack
2008.024.001
MIT, Hacking Community
2008
View thumbnail blackboard control hacks device
1987.020.003
View thumbnail Fire hydrant used for December 1991 Bldg. 16 water fountain hack
1993.034.002
1991
View thumbnail hack menorah/Chanukah lights Dome 1993
1994.060.001
1993
View thumbnail hack C.P. cruiser on dome May 1994
1994.085.001
1994
View thumbnail MIT plaque
2006.013.002
2006
View thumbnail Artifacts from "Cathedral 7" hack Lobby 7 October 30,1992
1993.034.003
1992
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Related People

thumbnail Smoot Jr., Oliver R.
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Related Subjects

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