Hacks by Media Type

Many hacks take advantage of the various media at MIT. The media's ability to reach large numbers of people makes this type of hack unusual in that whether it is ridiculous or subtle it will still be widely seen and appreciated.

Posters

• 2007 Larger-than-life board games around campus
• 2003 Hundreds of gnomes invaded the Student Center Athena cluster
• 2003 Robots staged a Robot Rights protest prior to the 6.270 competition
• 1997 Implications of infinity equaling 47.2 rods
• 1996 Place Bridge Here (E40)
• 1994 Nightline Meets Mr. Peterson
• 1994 "MicroSoft" posters
• 1994 MTG Assassins poster changed to "Twinkies"
• 1994 Tich Tolk hack issue of Tech Talk
• 1994 "Resnet: Because you can't Masturbate in the Clusters" posters in Athena clusters
• 1993 Chemical Elements Athena Cluster in the Student Center
• 1992 Hartley Rogers, Jr. for President
• 1992 Department of Alchemy Recruiting
• 1989 Grumpy Fuzzball meets Athena

Publications

• 2007 Parody of The Tech distributed by Caltech students
• 2003 Hack issue of MIT/WEllesley student magazine Counterpoint
• 2002 "Institute Historian, T.F. Peterson" in Library of Congress database
• 2002 Tech Talk (hack issue)
• 2001 Techstasy hack issue of student run newspaper The Tech
• 2000 The Toke hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
• 2000 The Boston Glob hack issue of local newspaper
• 1999 Hack issue of official newspaper Tech Talk
• 1999 The TEX fraternity-themed hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
• 1998 Counterputz hack issue of MIT-Wellesley student magazine Counterpoint
• 1998 The TIT Observer hack issue of student-run newspaper The MIT Observer
• 1997 The TeX Files hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
• 1997 The Absolut Tech hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
• 1996 Institoot, hack issue of Institvte
• 1996 Tich Tolk hack issue of the Tech Talk
• 1995 The Wreck hack issue of The Tech
• 1994 Tich Tolk hack issue of Tech Talk

Signs

• 2007 Larger-than-life board games around campus
• 2007 This sign has been hacked
• 2000 Aero-Astro Estates
• 1996 "You must be at least this smart to use Athena workstations." signs on Athena clusters

Handouts

• 2007 Larger-than-life board games around campus
• 2006 Peace, Love, and Linux Penguins in Condoms
• 1992 6.001 Spellbook

Banners

• 2005 Banner mocking Larry Summers' comments on Women in Science at Harvard
• 1995 "Kiss Me, I'm an Engineer" banner for Valentines Day

Balloons

• 1994 Balloon at Freshman Picnic

Audio/Sound

• 1991 Music and Spiders for Halloween
• 1991 Sound System Pitch Shift during "Hacks" Lecture

Performance

• 2007 V for Vendetta / Guy Fawkes Day at MIT
• 1995 Biohazard Cafe