Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank

[Anon84]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030091/Revealed-50-years-The-secret-greatest-student-prank.html

[wglb]

The nickb flashback has a comment that points to the caltech hack: http://today.caltech.edu/today/story-display.tcl?story_id=11....

These two examples illustrate the difference between a prank and a hack, don't you think? The prank was doing something under the noses of everyone that seemed to be impossible. The hack is getting someone else to execute your plan.

Both are awesome.

[JacobAldridge]

Ah, nickb flashback - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231117

[LeonB]

i think one of my mathematics lecturers, Mike Pemberton at UQ, (Australia) was involved in this. He explained it to us in detail many times. http://au.linkedin.com/pub/mike-pemberton/17/a56/50b