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Past MIT hacks include:
* Covering the university's signature "Great Dome" (which seems to be something of a magnet for hacks) with tin foil
* Putting a fake (but convincing) MIT Campus Police cruiser on the Dome
* Decorating the Dome as R2-D2
* 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
Over time, the meaning of the word there was expanded, perhaps through contact with the amateur radio community...
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It came to mean either a kludge, or the opposite of a kludge, as in a clever or elegant solution to a difficult problem. In the term "hack value" it also acquired a meaning of anything that was simultaneously fun and clever.
The initial hacker community at MIT, particularly those associated with the Tech Model Railroad Club, applied this pre-existing local slang to computer programming, producing the variant which first came into common use outside MIT...
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