In order to facilitate the transfer of information between researchers, engineers at MIT have created a linked network of computers called " Interweb."The network would connect computers all over the world through phone lines already in place, allowing them to exchange computer mail, or "computer-mail," which could be used to share information faster and more efficiently than could be done before.

An inspection team from the American Architects (AAG) proclaimed the MIT campus to be "weird, depressing, and unimaginative" after a visit on Thursday.

A geological survey discovered last week that the architectural formation known as the "infinite corridor" on the MIT campus is in fact a mere 251 meters long. After a review by Dr. Brickshaw Ferguson, a prominent mathematican at Yale University, this number was found to not be equal to infinity, and is in fact significantly more finite than many lengths including 300 meters, a mile, and 1000 feet.

MIT's Media Labs' latest innovation has been spotted reading German philosophy and smoking cigars in W-20, one week after researchers discovered the robot could question its own existence.

MIT undergraduate Jebidiah Matthews only wanted to cross the Charles to find cheap land, a new life and a restaurant he heard about from a friend, and was willing to brave the long journey to not only achieve these goals but also to fulfill MIT's manifest destiny of having settlers living from sea to shining the side of the MIT campus.

Students at Caltech activated a signal that finalized a prank more than twenty years in the making earlier this week, writing "MIT SUCKS" on the moon in letters large enough to be seen from earth with the naked eye. The prank, started in 1979, when Caltech students first noticed MIT existed, and decided to show them how much they "sucked."

After losing its title of Most Watched Network in America to CBS last year, NBC is trying to regain some of the magic that made it a powerhouse throughout the 1990s. The first step to NBC's revival is complete, as it has agreed to finance 13 episodes of the new serial mystery show, Letters, also known as 1377ER5.