Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
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Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT (ISBN 0-262-66137-3) is a history of the best-known hacks (flamboyant practical jokes) which have taken place at MIT. MIT is one of the most selective universities in the United States with a famous hack tradition.
Nightwork combines The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery, and Pranks at MIT (J. IHTFP) with "Is This The Way To Baker House?" and new elements. Note that the "author" of "Nightwork" is listed as "Institute Historian T. F. Peterson", which is a reference to the MIT cultural acronym IHTFP.
Several excerpts from Nightwork are available online from the MIT alumni website:
- Where No Cow Has Gone Before: Accessing the Inaccessible
- Hacking Ethics
- Hack, Hacker, Hacking
- IHTFP
- The Case of the Disappearing President's Office
- Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They
