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A book on a particular aspect of culture and events in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It glimpses into one aspect of “playful hacking“, pranks and practical jokes.

• Properly titled Nightwork – A history of hacks and pranks at MIT
• ISBN-10: 9-780262-661379

• Combines The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery, and Pranks at MIT (J. IHTFP) with “Is This The Way To Baker House?”

• “Institute Historian T. F. Peterson” is likely a play on the MIT cultural acronym “IHTFP”.

• Fnord is the last word in the MIT Physics Department Oct 25, 1985 “paper airplane” hack.