Talk:Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

message: While I can't confirm the Referee Hack rumor discussed in the article, I can add that I can confirm a similar prank performed in the US Marines.  A company dog was trained in similar fashion to howl whenever a Colonel or higher ranking officer in dress-uniform spoke.  The prank was pulled at the commissioning of a new class of graduates from a Marine academy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.89.50.82 (talk) 06:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referee Hack 

message: The following were items on the Hack (technology) as part of history of the term but are being removed to clean up the history. items already on MIT hack were omitted
*Covering the university's signature "Great Dome" (which seems to be something of a magnet for hacks) with tin foil
*Hiding the university president's office by covering its entrance with a fake bulletin board
*Inflating a huge balloon on the playing field during a Harvard-Yale football game
*Turning the MIT Dome into a giant baseball with a Red-Sox logo after the Red-Sox won the World Series
*Making an image of Trogdor out of post-it notes
*Turning the Great Dome (again) into a beanie, complete with forty-foot spinning propeller on top and a detailed removal manual left at the base of the propeller.
Strikeouts in above list have already been incorporated into the "MIT Hacks" article. Reify-tech (talk) 14:13, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Items dropped from Hack (technology) that could belong in the scope of this article

message: Maybe this is just an urban legend I heard but didn't some MIT students wire the lighting of a building on campus to play a giant game of Tetris from a hill outdoors? Valley2city 22:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Disappointingly, not quite true.  For details, see the article on the Green Building (MIT), which points to known documentation on the subject. Summary: A technical challenge yet to be fully addressed by MIT hackers. Reify-tech (talk) 18:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tetris? 

message: Does anyone think that writing up the following hacks would be worthwhile?  If so, please contact me at kashi@alaska.net  Regards Joe Kashi, BS '72, MS '73, Attorney at Law, Soldotna, AK   The following is based solely upon my own personal observation and experience as News Editor of The Tech in the early 1970s.
A genealogybank.com search of newspapers in the relevant period (1936-1943) does not turn up any indication of this story. Further evidence needed that this ever happened.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:197:900:1AE0:400D:6B99:6EB:9A (talk) 19:20, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your first-person contribution.  While it can't go onto the main article without additional documentation, your narrative was enjoyable to read here.  Reify-tech (talk) 19:22, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Welding the Trolley Car to the tracks at 77 Mass. Avenue 

message: Shouldn't the event where notes from this song put on the dome? 72.220.153.202 (talk) 22:41, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Never Gonna Give You Up 

message: The picture now appears to be missing from the article, and appears as a "red link", which means that the file cannot be found.  Some petty but unimaginative cracker may have deleted, renamed, or moved the file so that it is inacessible.  I have to get some sleep, so I leave it to other Defenders of the Truth to restore this documentary evidence.
Reify-tech (talk) 06:06, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Upon investigation, it appears that the image was deleted because of a copyright issue.  Does anybody have a suitable replacement photo showing the Caltech cannon fitted with the giant Brass Rat?  This is truly an iconic image for a classic MIT hack, and ought to be part of the article.  Reify-tech (talk) 14:35, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You could do the Google Image search and chase down the rights. Lentower (talk) 15:19, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Caltech Fleming Cannon Picture Missing?

message: Currently, the article points to many photos on other websites, but has relatively few itself.  The issue is image rights clearance.  Does anybody have good, rights-cleared photos they can personally contribute, or is anybody up to chasing down rights clearances from the owners of classic photos?  Here's a brief "wanted list" of classic images that would really enhance the article:
* "Borrowed" Caltech Cannon, fitted with its oversized MIT Brass Rat
* Statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard, wearing full "Halo 3" battle gear
* Campus Patrol car on top of the Great Dome, from a nearby vantage point, including the spectacular panoramic view visible from that location
* Flawlessly hacked inscription in Lobby 7 ("Established for advancement and development of [...] arts entertainment and hacking")
* The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool
* Expanding weather ballon hack at the Harvard-Yale football game
Further suggestions (and usable photos) are welcome!
Reify-tech (talk) 18:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Need More Pictures

message: It's been proposed that IHTFP be merged into this article Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. User 71.184.245.22 added the merge templates with these edit summaries: Add merge suggestion and Link to IHTFP article, suggest merge. Lentower (talk) 13:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Support The Merge From candidate is a very small stub, and the Merge To article has more to say on this topic.  Making this small orphan a redirect like Ihtfp and IHTFP (disambiguation) is the encylopeidic thing to do. Note this was done in the past Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IHTFP. Lentower (talk) 13:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

text: Support, for the reasons given.  The merge target article has strong coverage and ties in well, and the merger source is a stub which appears unlikely to grow naturally into a stand-alone article.  --Reify-tech (talk) 14:35, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  IHTFP merger proposal 

message: You can erase this guys, but I felt clap clap clap were due here. The quality of the text, the richness of research and resources is astounding. I would like to express all contributors, particularly Lentower, the most active editor here, my deepest gratitude for this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcintra (talk • contribs) 
:I'd like to belatedly point out that I have probably added the most quantity of material (by byte count), including numerous reference footnotes. Reify-tech (talk) 00:21, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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