MIT hackers play TETRIS on a whole building

MIT hackers:
• made the MIT president's office disappear in 1990;
• turned the tallest building on campus into the world's largest live stereo audio meter in 1993, to measure the volume of the annual July 4 Boston Pops concert across the river;
• put what looked a lotlike a real campus police cruiser on top of one of the iconic Great Dome in 1994 (with flashing lights, a dummy dressed as a campus cop, a box of donuts, a Campus Police ticket for parking without a permit for the location and a license plate reading IHTFP );
• turned the Great Dome into R2-D2 in 1999;
• landed Dr. Who's TARDIS time-and-spaceship from MIT to CalTech, Berkeley and back again for two different appearances on or near the Great Dome;
• allowed Daleks to respond by appearing atop MIT's Stata Center;
• landed a lunar module atop the Great Dome;
• re-tinted the subway's Red Line as the Infrared Line;
• changed MIT's home page April 1, 1998 to announce Disney was buying MIT;
• recruited freshmen for the Department of Alchemy in 1992;
• caused Middle Earth to overlap with Cambridge, twice, as the One Ring ruled the Great Dome, and the Eye of Sauron came to have a look.

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