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Credit: Statue of Liberty on the Green Building, 1986 [031-liberty]
1600 green and pink ping pong balls were dropped over a period of two and a half minutes in Lobby 7, 1983
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.
Alpha Tau Omega uses the Sheraton sign to advertise during Freshman Orientation Week, starting in 1967
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.
Mags Harries created a steel frame study piece for her proposed sculpture; hackers draped it to become a bird, 1990.
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
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]
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.
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