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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), and the Hoax Forum.
The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.Prankplace.com
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#77: MITkey Mouse
On April 1, 1998 the homepage of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced some startling news: the prestigious university was to be sold to Walt Disney Co. for $6.9 billion. A photograph of the university's famous dome outfitted with a pair of mouse ears accompanied the news. The press release explained that the university was to be dismantled and transported to Orlando where new schools would be added to the campus including the School of Imagineering, the Scrooge McDuck School of Management, and the Donald Duck Department of Linguistics. The fact that the announcement appeared on MIT's homepage added official credibility to it. But in fact, the announcement was the work of students who had hacked into the school's central server and replaced the school's real web page with a phony one.
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Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Posted by Don in California on Wed Apr 06, 2005 at 12:35 AM
That is pure genius. I would be very tempted to do that to my college's web site, but considering I am an employee as well as student I think I might get fired.
Posted by IT Student in AR on Sat Apr 01, 2006 at 11:32 AM
This is actually a true story that was generated by a couple of unknown historians (Crowther and Woods?) years ago. The true purchaser of the establisment was a "Wizard of Frobozz" for 4,106 Zorkmids.
Posted by Dimwit Flathead in Great Underground Empire on Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 08:10 AM
Looks like staff, not students, did this one. Note tjcoppet (Tom Coppeto) as the contact, who works in the network group and could easily post such a fake.
Posted by Bruce Lewis on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 07:07 AM
But you have to realize that MIT actually has a history of pranks (mainly dealing with the dome). So no one would really get fired over this one because it is not really out of the norm and they actually have a good temprament towards pranks as long as they do no damage to property.
Posted by Joseph in Orlando on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 10:12 AM
This one is the best one I've read so far
Posted by Dominique in Somewhere over the Rainbow on Thu Apr 20, 2006 at 03:30 PM
No, it wasn't me.
Posted by Tom Coppeto on Sat Apr 22, 2006 at 07:06 PM
Yeah, with MIT's history of pranks, that doesn't surprise me at all. But still... MITkey Mouse? I'm trying to stop laughing... I'm failing to stop laughing... wow.
Posted by Travis in Norman, OK on Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 09:40 AM
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