Mario Hacks MIT

GameSetWatch reports on a Mario-themed MIT hack, transforming the 'little dome' into a NES wonderland. From the article at Laura's MIT Blog: "And of course, what Mario level would be complete without the all-important triangular flag? Unfortunately, one of the coolest parts of the hack was impossible to capture with a photograph. As I walked into Lobby 7, camera in hand, ready to document the hell out of MITMarioWorld, I was met with...music. The Mario theme was resonating throughout Lobby 7. It was. so cool."

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Re:Hack?

[porcupine8]

"Hack" at MIT means "prank," not "messing with computers". As I understand it, originally "hacking" meant, basically, leaving the established trail. At MIT, it came to mean exploring unusual parts of campus (which as a verb it still means), and then putting things in those parts of campus (like a car on the dome) and other pranks in general (usually used as a noun). At about the same time as that usage was evolving at MIT, the same word was being adopted by computer geeks (at MIT and elsewhere) to mean doing the same stuff, but in computers instead of in the physical world. So the usages are related, but the MIT one isn't really used anywhere else.

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