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This is the comprehensive listing of all of the hacks in the IHTFP Hack Gallery, presented in reverse chronological order.
2023
2022
- Cramming for 19.101 Finals
- Harvard Duck Heist
- Wakanda Forever!
- Eye of Sauron on top of Small Dome
- Openness Hack
- KEEP MIT OPEN, KEEP MIT WEIRD
- Wordle is IHTFP
- Twosday Hack
2021
2019
2018
- 3.091 Periodic Table
- A Periodic Table and a Candy Cane
- Office Chair
- Ivy League Champions
- Lobby 7 Disco Ball
2017
- Nothing's Impossible Banner in Walker
- CSAIL Sail
- Foam Dinosaur on Kresge
- GLaDOS in Lobby 7
- Senior House Tombstone
- Earth Day
- 21 in 7
- Pussy Hats for Women's Day
- Relay For Life
- Traffic Tribute
- Elevator Buttons
2016
- Mars Rover by Kresge
- Buckyball in 10-250
- MacGhosts
- Infinite Fortune
- 2020 Vision Chart
- 25 Years of Linux
- Maclaurin's energy vision
- Planes Over North Court
- Captain America
- Moving Day Beaver
- CPW Banners Unfurled
- ExSPONGEd
- Drone Invasion
- Random's 12th Birthday
- SpaceX
- Alan Rickman Memorial
- Tribute to David Bowie
2015
- Pinatas in Lobby 7
- Celebrating Pixar
- French Flag Projected on Great Dome
- Fallout 4
- Enemies of the Heir
- Infinite Zoo
- Hack to the Future
- New Bexley
- #IStandWithAhmed Clock
- Hackapult
- Tau on the Cow
- MIT Pride
- Media Lab Logo
- Jurassic World
- Pi in the Sky
- Pirate Bay Flag
- Snowhenge
2014
- Castle on a Cloud
- Phoebe Wang Memorial
- Rainbow 77
- Collier's Cranes
- Caltech Admissions Tube
- Excellence Awards
- Olympic Rings Over Briggs
2013
- Thanksgivukkah Dreidel on Building 10
- The Enemy's Gate is Down
- Breaking Bad Alchemist
- Freddie on Kresge
- Sean Collier Memorial
- Welcome Back Hockfield
- Medical Mask on the Alchemist
- Pacman and Blinky on the Great Dome
2012
- Mayan's "Final Week" tribute in Lobby 7
- /g/
- Tetris on the Green Building
- Circus in Lobby 7
- Portal Themed Newton's Cradle
- Dalek on the Stata Center
- Random's 11th Birthday
- Arrow Through the Ray Dome
- 1000 xkcd Comics in Lobby 7
2011
- Invasion MIT
- November Rule
- V for Vendetta
- Apple Logo in Memory of Steve Jobs
- 10th Anniversary of 9/11
- Nyan Cat in Lobby 7
- Cheat Code to the Dome
- Relay For Life
- Alchemist's Internal Organs
- Wikipedia 10th Anniversary
2010
- 18.02 Last Day of Classes
- Giant Spider
- TARDIS on building 7, great dome, and beyond
- 6-120 Quantum Physics Last Day of Classes
- Upside-Down Lounge appears near the Media Lab
- Galileo 400th Anniversary
- Pluto's Birthday in Lobby 7
- Engineered Body Parts Display
2009
- Black Hole
- Music Notes
- Statue of the goddess Athena in Killian Court
- Apollo Lunar Module on the Great Dome
- Solar Powered Subway Car on the Great Dome
- "Creative People with Words" items appear around campus
- Watchmen Banner in Lobby 7
- Cylon Eye and Ship on W20 for Battlestar Galactica Finale
- Banner for Charles Darwin's Birthday
2008
- Bed with teddy bear appears in building 10 lounge
- Epiphany Toilet on Building 37
- NASA Logo on the Dot
- Violation Notices on Hacks
- Trapped in a sign factory, send help!
- Do not hack.
- DTYD Bomber in lobby 7
- UFO crashes into Stata
- In Case of Zombie Attack, Break Glass
- Media Test Wall Rickroll
- I Will Hate This F***ing Place
- Garden in CSAIL for April 1st
- D20 in Killian Court
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Lobby 7
- Memorial to Sir Arthur Peckington
- Random Hall celebrates its birthday
- Stargate in E19
- Ben Franklin's Birthday
2007
- W20 Christmas Tree
- 6.001 Last Lecture
- Larger-than-life board games around campus
- V for Vendetta / Guy Fawkes Day at MIT
- "GO SOX" banner on New House
- Sputnik in Lobby 10
- John Harvard plays Halo3
- Purple Dome
- Dark Mark from Harry Potter over Student Center
- Broomstick Parking for Harry Potter
- Red, White, and Blue Dome for Fourth of July
- Great Dome goes Green
- I'll Have Thesis Finished Pronto at 2007 Commencement
- Playpen balls fall at xkcd lecture
- This sign has been hacked
- Working traffic light in windows of building E25
- Large paper airplanes in Lobby 10 and Stata
- Parody of The Tech distributed by Caltech students
- Mooninite Is Not a Bomb Banner
- Yellow cranks around campus
2006
- Where's Waldo? He's on the Stata Center...
- Gehry Christmas Tree in Stata Center
- Legend of Zelda "Triforce" on Great Dome
- "Huge Ego" at Harvard-Yale game
- Huge food replicas in front of Student Center
- Fire Truck on the Great Dome
- Batman symbol on great dome
- Caltech's Fleming Cannon transported to MIT by Howe & Ser Moving Company
- Peace, Love, and Linux Penguins in Condoms
- Torino 2006 Olympic Medal on the Dome
- "MIT" sign in front of Stata Center changed to read "VOMIT"
2005
- Swing set on Stata building sculpture
- Teardrop on dollar bill mural
- Mario Brothers in Infinite Corridor
- Optional instead of title with surrounding text to use to link to the entry. Title used if this isn't present.
- Building 9 turned into Building 9¾ for Harry Potter movie release
- Harry Potter's Scar on the Dome
- Revolving Campus
- Time Travellers Convention
- Banner in Killian for President Hockfield inauguration
- Dollar bill gets President Hockfield's face
- Radome on 54 and building 10 decorated for Hitchhiker's Guide Movie
- Caltech vs. MIT
- Banner drops at acapella concert during CPW
- Banner mocking Larry Summers' comments on Women in Science at Harvard
- Study on the effect of tinfoil hats on blocking mind control satellites
- Sunken pirate ship and tombstones honor demise of Course 13 (Ocean Engineering)
2004
- Amusing No Trespassing signs around campus
- Tropical Escape
- Bronzed Toolage
- Redsox logo on great dome
- Go Sox!
- Red Sox Greenspeak
- Infrared Line at Simmons Hall
- MIT Banner at Harvard Orientation
- Vannevar Shrubbery Room at the entrance to 10-105
- DNC Donkey Banner
- Marriage Proposal Drop Banner in Lobby 7
- Property Office Sticker on Stata
- Linux running on internet kiosks in Gates Building
- Anti-Harvard banner at PreFrosh Convocation
- Transparent Horizons describes itself in East Campus style
- Security vulnerability warnings at Gates talk
- I Hate The Flag Policy
- Spaceman Spiff Crashes into the Small Dome
2003
- Wright Flyer on the Great Dome celebrates 100 years of flight
- Pirate flag and banner on great dome
- Hack issue of MIT/WEllesley student magazine Counterpoint
- SPODSA New Student Registration
- Rocket disperses flyers over Freshman Picture
- Domes in Mirror
- Make Way for Cruftlings
- Cluster keypad artwork
- Mom on the Dome for Mother's Day
- Hundreds of gnomes invaded the Student Center Athena cluster
- IHTFP balloon grid in Lobby 7
- Anti-harvard banner at CPW
- Alphabet Blocks in Lobby 7
- Post-It picture on List Center Media Test Wall
- Welcome to the Academy banner hung from Student Center
- The MIT Black Morbid Fling Together parodied of Valentine's Day matchup services
- Robots staged a Robot Rights protest prior to the 6.270 competition
2002
- Eye of Sauron in Lobby 7 skylight
- UMOC entries in Lobby 7
- Crop Cirlces show on Discovery Channel
- "Institute Historian, T.F. Peterson" in Library of Congress database
- Waffle House banner on Simmons Hall
- Eigenfish in 18.03
- Tech Talk (hack issue)
- Axes of Evil in Lobby 7
- Wheel of Tuition in Lobby 7 skylight
- Paper dolls in Lobby 7 skylight
2001
- Gamma Alpha Gamma fraternity during Rush
- NMR magnet converted to R2D2 in Lobby 10
- "Hole of the Week" sign on Mass. Ave. construction
- Hackers in biohazard suits search W20
- The One Ring appears around the Great Dome
- American flag hanging from Building 10
- Funeral Procession Held For Rush
- So Long and Thanks For All the Frosh added beneath the great dome
- Parachuting beavers at Commencement
- Techstasy hack issue of student run newspaper The Tech
- Weight on Great Dome
- Magic Pi Ball on Building 54
- Tech dinghy in Chapel moat
- Banner in memory of Douglas Adams
- Monolith Excavation in Lobby 7
- [real] Snowman on small dome
2000
- Green, three-eyed Toy Story aliens invade a vending machine
- W20 Elevator chanting
- The Toke hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
- Squanch in 2-4-6
- Hackers drop beavers at Harvard-Yale Game
- Chess Board in Lobby 7
- Maze in Lobby 7
- The Boston Glob hack issue of local newspaper
- Aero-Astro Estates
- No Hack for April 1st
1999
- Hack issue of official newspaper Tech Talk
- Spider Web in Lobby 7
- Freshman Tracking Devices
- Neil Armstrong/Moon Landing
- Great Droid
- The TEX fraternity-themed hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
- Elevator to hidden sub-basement in Building 20 rubble
- Internet Cleaning
- Television on the wall of the Infinite Corridor
1998
- Lobby 7 skylight: ALL HAIL PASS/FAIL
- Jolt bottles dedicated to ``MIT professors who necessitate extreme caffeination''
- Counterputz hack issue of MIT-Wellesley student magazine Counterpoint
- Welcome MIT Debtors (banner)
- Talking Elevator in W20
- Techtanic transformation of Building 66
- Orange Ribbons in support of ILTFP
- Housing 2001 banners and flyer
- Extra Thanks to Physical Plant
- The TIT Observer (hack issue of The MIT Observer)
- The TIT Observer hack issue of student-run newspaper The MIT Observer
- Aramark Monopoly in W20
- MIT Zodiac outside Student Services Center
- MIT web page changed to claim that Disney was buying MIT.
- Deactivated sticker on Building 20
- Greenspeak: Oscar[tm] for Good Will Hunting
- Great American Meat-In
- Paper airplane in Lobby 7
- Wile E. Coyote smashes into Rotch Library Wall
1997
- Geeks Crossing sign on Memorial Drive
- People's Republic of Cambridge signs
- Gargoyles in Lobby 7
- The TeX Files hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
- Monolith on Killian Court during Freshman Picture
- Implications of infinity equaling 47.2 rods
- The Absolut Tech hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech
- "So long, and thanks for all the fish" banner in the Fishbowl cluster
- Dead Fishbowl
- Cheese on the Great Dome
1996
- Place Bridge Here (E40)
- Great Wind
- Door on Building 66
- Disco Ball in Lobby 7
- Santa Delivers Coal for John Harvard in Walker Memorial
- The Sink Appears Opposite The Source
- Institoot, hack issue of Institvte
- Scrolling LED hacked for NASA launch
- Housing2000
- Bring Out Your Dead
- Lit Jack-O-Lantern Hanging in Lobby 7
- The Great Beanie
- Foo Bar on July 4th
- Al Gore Buzzword Bingo for Graduation
- Banners for Gates' Visit
- Smiley Faces on the Big Sail and the Little Sail
- Piano on the Great Dome
- Hackers Augment Wheat Field Art in Lobby 7
- John Harvard -- Unabomber Suspect
- Shower Stall in Student Center Athena Cluster
- Tich Tolk hack issue of the Tech Talk
- "You must be at least this smart to use Athena workstations." signs on Athena clusters
1995
- Mickey Mouse Clock in Walker
- Balloons on Transparent Horizon
- Hacked Signs at Kendall T station
- Scrubbing Bubbles on Media Lab
- Bronze Beaver in Killian Court Sidewalk
- "MIT Card Coming Soon" Posters
- MCMXVI changed to IHTFP on Great Dome
- Jolt can in Lobby 7
- The Wreck hack issue of The Tech
- "Kiss Me, I'm an Engineer" banner for Valentines Day
- Biohazard Cafe
1994
- "Big Brother Inside" stickers on card readers
- Pei Toilet on the Media Lab
- Do Not Open until Christmas 2014 on Building 14 Handicap Entrance
- Vector Day
- Nightline Meets Mr. Peterson
- "Sport Death" protest hack
- Great Dome Pumpkin [reprise]
- Smile in Lobby 7 Skylight (reprise)
- "MicroSoft" posters
- Jurassic Research Laboratories at Building 68 Dedication
- Jurassic Park logo in Lobby 7 Skylight
- Housing Assignments Letters
- Balloon at Freshman Picnic
- MTG Assassins poster changed to "Twinkies"
- Changed Inscription in Lobby 7
- CP Car on the Great Dome
- Tich Tolk hack issue of Tech Talk
- IAP Screensaver
- Beer Shrine in Lobby 7
- "Resnet: Because you can't Masturbate in the Clusters" posters in Athena clusters
1993
- Bathroom Athena Cluster
- Candy Cane Pillars at 77 Mass. Ave.
- Menorah on the Small Dome
- Witch's Hat on the Small Dome
- RSI in Lobby 7 Skylight
- Cannibals at MIT
- VU Meter on the Green Building
- Pooh
- Contents Vnder Pressvre on the Small Dome
- Tombstone for Dean James Tewhey
- Chemical Elements Athena Cluster in the Student Center
- $10,000 Bill Mural at the Cashier's Office
- Greenspeak: IAP 183
- Hacking Series Committee Calendar
1992
- Pumpkin on MIT Press building
- Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool in Lobby 7
- Hartley Rogers, Jr. for President
- Swing in Lobby 7
- GAME OVER
- 6.001 Spellbook
- Department of Alchemy Recruiting
- Anchors Away! (reprise)
- 10-250 Chalkboard Gremlins Strike Again
- Nerds for a Better America banner for Pres. George Bush's visit
1991
- Fire Hose Drinking Fountain
- SPODSA Invades Hack Talk
- Music and Spiders for Halloween
- Edwin Phortey plaque at the Muckley Building (E40) dedication
- University of Michigan Banner for Pres. Charles Vest's Inauguration
- Putt-Putt Golf Course on the Lawn of the President's House
- Sound System Pitch Shift during "Hacks" Lecture
1990
- 1994 Superballs
- Our Lady of the All-Night Tool
- Christmas Lights and Presents on the Small Dome
- Cast on John Harvard
- Harvard-Yale End Zone Banner
- Smurfs in Lobby 7
- Disappearing President's Office
- Harvard Yard Plate
- Slide Rule and the Student Center Hairball
1989
- Grumpy Fuzzball meets Athena
- U.S.S. Enterprise in Lobby 7 for William Shatner's Visit
- Rotated Colored Squares on Media Lab Wall
- Batman Symbol in Lobby 7 Skylight
- "Push Core for New Roll" Banner on Media Lab Sculpture
